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Services Australia website links

Services Australia

For information about financial support for carers and other government and community services, see Services Australia website, Caring for someone with an illness or disability.

External websites

Carers can find their local Commonwealth Respite and Carelink Centre on the My Aged Care website by searching for 'Support for carers' in the Help at home finder.

Scenario

Calculating start and end dates

This table provides a summary of how to calculate the start and end dates for coding of respite or hospitalisation days for Carer Payment (CP) and Carer Allowance (CA).

Scenario

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A carer provides care on Tuesday morning and the care receiver enters respite that same day. They provide care again on the Friday afternoon that the care receiver returns home from respite. This would result in a total of 2 respite dates being coded. The start date is Wednesday and the end date is Thursday.

This is because the carer is taken to have provided care on the Tuesday and again on the Friday. There are only 2 full 24 hour periods from midnight to midnight that the care receiver was absent.