Bill
Aged Care Legislation Amendment (Improved Home Care Payment Administration No. 2) Bill 2020
passed, as at 2021-02-16. Health portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Health
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2020-10-21
- second reading — 2020-10-21
- other — 2020-12-09
- second reading — 2020-12-09
- second reading — 2020-12-09
- committee — 2020-12-09
- other — 2020-12-09
- third reading — 2020-12-09
- introduced — 2021-02-02
- second reading — 2021-02-02
- second reading — 2021-02-02
- second reading — 2021-02-02
- committee — 2021-02-02
- third reading — 2021-02-02
- passed — 2021-02-02
- royal assent — 2021-02-16
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 2020-10-21.
This bill would change how home care subsidies are paid to approved providers.
Approved providers would have to report the cost of care delivered each month to the Commonwealth to receive subsidies.
The Commonwealth would keep any unspent subsidy on behalf of care recipients, and providers could elect to return unspent funds through a 100 per cent subsidy reduction.
- Requires approved providers to report the cost of care and services delivered each month to the Commonwealth.
- The Commonwealth will retain unspent Commonwealth subsidy on behalf of care recipients.
- Introduces a mechanism for providers to elect to return unspent funds to the Commonwealth.
- Providers returning unspent funds will do so through a 100 per cent subsidy reduction until the funds are exhausted.
- Makes a consequential amendment to the A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax) Act 1999 to keep home care GST-free.
- Does not change how consumer contributions are treated or affect eligibility for home care subsidy.
Approved home care providers and home care recipients.
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