Bill
Health and Other Services (Compensation) Care Charges (Amendment) Bill 2014
passed, as at 2014-12-04. Social Services portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Social Services
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2014-09-25
- second reading — 2014-09-25
- second reading — 2014-10-23
- second reading — 2014-10-27
- second reading — 2014-10-27
- third reading — 2014-10-27
- introduced — 2014-10-28
- second reading — 2014-10-28
- second reading — 2014-11-24
- second reading — 2014-11-24
- third reading — 2014-11-24
- passed — 2014-11-24
- royal assent — 2014-12-04
Divisions
No divisions recorded. Most questions are decided on the voices; this does not establish that a bill was unopposed.
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2014-09-25.
This bill is part of a two-bill package that also includes the Aged Care and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2014, together addressing a gap in recovering past care costs for home care when a care recipient gets compensation.
The package would align home care cost recovery with existing residential care rules, allowing the Commonwealth to recover such costs from compensation payments.
The amendments that expand charges on compensation are placed in this separate bill to satisfy section 55 of the Constitution.
- The bill would amend the Health and Other Services (Compensation) Care Charges Act 1995 to enable recovery of past home care costs from compensation payments.
- The bill would remove the inequality between home and residential care in cost recovery.
- The bill would help avoid delays in moving to residential care while compensation is pending.
- The bill would reduce financial losses to the Commonwealth.
Home care recipients who receive compensation payments, and the Commonwealth.
Sources
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