Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2025C00053:reg:72
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2025C00053
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 72
Character Range: 50239–51234

72  Amount of hardship supplement—certain charge exempt residents
 (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 sum of:
 (a) the amount of basic income support compensation referred to in subsection (2); and
 (b) $0.40, being the amount of pharmaceutical allowance compensation; and
 (c) $1.40, being the amount of pharmaceutical concessions compensation.
 (2) For paragraph (1)(a), the basic income support compensation for a care recipient is the amount of residential care allowance the care recipient was receiving on the day before 1 October 1997, as advised by Centrelink, indexed in line with the pensioner supplement.
Note 1: Charge exempt resident has the meaning given by repealed section 44‑8B of the Transitional Provisions Act.
Note 2: Pensioner supplement means the supplement referred to in section 44‑28 of the Transitional Provisions Act.