Carer Payment (CP) for 2 or more carers in respect of the same care receiver 009-04060000

Example

Description

1

Constant care requirement

Mike has become a quadriplegic and suffered brain damage as a result of a car accident.

Mike has an ADAT score of 135 with a total health professional questionnaire score of 52. Mike's parent Jane, together with Jane's 2 siblings each provide care.

Jane provides 14 hours care and each of the siblings provide 8 hours care. There is an overlap in the mornings and evenings when 2 carers are needed to accomplish Mike's needs.

As each carer is providing the equivalent of a working day of care, they could not be expected to sustain workforce participation.

They each, therefore, meet the constant care requirement.

2

2 or more carers

Julie and her adult children, Joanna and John, each care for Julie’s partner, Dave who is frail aged and a paraplegic.

Dave has an ADAT score of 125 which means 2 or more carers can qualify for CP for care provided to him.

Joanna and John each take 10 hour shifts in caring for Dave.

Joanna cares for Dave from 5am to 3pm each day. John cares from 1pm to 11pm. Julie provides care as needed over a 24 hour period.

Julie cannot manage a lot of the care by herself and needs the adult children to lift and move Dave while she changes bedding, washes or massages Dave, feeds him and prepares his food or changes his clothes.

They are all providing care at least equivalent to a working day each day even when caring at the same time, and they could not be expected to sustain workforce participation.

Both Joanna and John meet the constant care provisions as well as Julie, and because Dave's ADAT score is over 80, (of which 32 is attributable to the HPA) they each meet the constant care requirement and all qualify for CP