Aged Care and Other Legislation Amendment Act 2025 (45 of 2025)

Schedule 1   Amendment of the Aged Care Act 2024

Part 1   Amendments commencing immediately after the commencement of the Aged Care Act 2024

Aged Care Act 2024

194   After paragraph 294(1)(c)

Insert:

(ca) that, if the individual pays an accommodation payment because of subparagraph (b)(iii) in the period (the interim period) between the individual's start day and the day the individual's daily means tested amount at the individual's start day is determined, the following will apply:

(i) the amount of accommodation payment charged by the registered provider for a day in the interim period must be equal to, or less than, the agreed accommodation payment amount, as expressed as a daily accommodation payment amount;

(ii) any accommodation payment paid during the interim period must be paid by daily payments;

(iii) the individual is to be refunded the amount (if any) by which the accommodation payment paid during the interim period exceeds the amount that would have been payable if the individual's daily means tested amount for the individual's start day had been determined at the start day;