Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2025C00053:reg:91l
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2025C00053
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 91L
Character Range: 84784–85807

91L  Amount of hardship supplement—certain care recipients who occupied an approved place in an aged care service on 30 September 1997
 (1) The amount of the hardship supplement for a day for a care recipient who is a member of the class specified in paragraph 56(1)(b) of the Transitional Provisions Principles is the amount equal to the sum of:
 (a) the amount of basic income support compensation for the recipient worked out under subsection (2) of this section; and
 (b) $0.40, being the amount of pharmaceutical allowance compensation; and
 (c) $1.40, being the amount of pharmaceutical concessions compensation.
 (2) For the purposes of paragraph (1)(a), the basic income support compensation for a care recipient is the amount of residential care allowance the recipient was receiving on the day before 1 October 1997, adjusted in line with adjustments made to the amount of the pensioner supplement.
Note: Pensioner supplement means the supplement referred to in section 44‑28 of the Transitional Provisions Act.