Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024A00104:section:220:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024A00104
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 220 (pt 1/2)
Character Range: 370350–373024

220  Available home modifications account balance
 (1) A notional home modifications account is established for the period (the account period) prescribed by the rules for an individual if an entry day for the individual occurs for the ongoing or short‑term classification type for the service group home modifications.
 (1A) Without limiting subsection (1), rules made for the purposes of that subsection may provide that the System Governor may determine the account period for the individual in accordance with the rules.
 (2) The available balance of an individual's notional home modifications account at a time is the difference, worked out in accordance with this section, between the sum of the credits that have been made to the account at that time reduced (but not below zero) by the sum of the debits that have been made to the account at that time.

Credit to account
 (3) At the start of the day the account is established, the account is credited with the individual's tier amount for the account period.

Credit due to primary person‑centred supplement applying
 (4) If a primary person‑centred supplement for the classification type for the service group applies to the individual on the day the account is established, the account is credited at the start of the day with the amount of that primary person‑centred supplement for the individual for the account period.

Debits to account
 (5) If one or more claims are made under section 251 for person‑centred subsidy for the delivery of an ongoing or short‑term funded aged care service through the service group to the individual on a day, the account is reduced on that day (but after the start of the day), in the order prescribed by the rules, by the amount worked out as follows for each of those claims:
 (a) first, take the amount worked out under Step 1 of the method statement in section 219 for the claim;
 (b) then reduce the amount referred to in paragraph (a) of this subsection by the sum of:
 (i) the available balance of the individual's unspent Commonwealth portion held by the registered provider (if any) on that day in accordance with section 226A, taking into account any amounts already debited from that portion in accordance with that section on that day; and
 (ii) the available balance of the individual's home care account (if any) on that day in accordance with section 226E, taking into account any claims already debited from that account in accordance with that section on that day.

Insufficient funds
 (6) If the debiting of an amount in relation to a claim under subsection (5) would result in the individual's account being debited below zero, the claim is taken to be a