Aged Care (Living Longer Living Better)Act 2013 (76 of 2013)

Schedule 4   Amendments of other Acts

Part 2   Amendments commencing on 1 July 2014

Social Security Act 1991

21   After paragraph 11A(8)(b)

Insert:

(ba) if the Secretary is satisfied that the residence was previously the person's principal home but that the person left it for the purpose of going into a care situation - any period during which:

(i) the person is liable to pay all or some of a daily accommodation payment or a daily accommodation contribution (or would be so liable to do so, assuming that no sanctions under Part 4.4 of the Aged Care Act 1997 were currently being imposed on the provider of the care concerned); and

(ii) the person, or the person's partner, is earning, deriving or receiving rent for the residence from another person; and