Eligibility for Carer Allowance (CA) (child) when a carer is claiming or receiving CA only 009-03020010
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Policy
Carer Allowance (CA) qualifications
- 3.6.7, CA - Qualification & Payability
- 3.6.7.10, Qualification for HCC Only CA (child)
- 3.6.7.20, HCC Only CA (child) - Measuring the Level of Care & Attention
- 3.6.7.30, Qualification for CA
- 3.6.7.40, Qualification for CA (child) with Combined DCLA Scores of 2 Children
- 8.1.7.20, Social Worker Involvement - Specific Payments
CA qualifications - absences
- 3.6.7.50, Qualification for CA during Temporary Cessation of Care
- 3.6.7.60, Qualification during Temporary Absence from the Private Home - Hospitalisation (CA)
- 3.6.7.70, Qualification for CA during Overseas Travel
- 3.6.7.90, Qualification during Temporary Absence of a Child from the Private Home - HCC only CA (child)
CA assessment tool
- 3.6.12, Disability Care Load Assessment (child) (DCLA)
- 3.6.12.10, Overview of DCLAD (Child) Scoring Regime
- 3.6.12.240, Overview of the Professional Questionnaire Scoring Regime
- 3.6.12.250, DCLAD (Child) Professional Questionnaire Scoring Step 1 - Child's Chronological Age
- 3.6.12.260, DCLAD (Child) Professional Questionnaire Scoring Steps 2 to 4 - Developmentally-linked Functional Abilities
- 3.6.12.270, DCLAD (Child) Professional Questionnaire Scoring Step 5 - Scoring for Non-developmentally-linked Categories of Function
- 3.6.12.280, DCLAD (Child) Professional Questionnaire Scoring Step 6 - Interim THP Score
- 3.6.12.290, DCLAD (Child) Professional Questionnaire Scoring Step 7 - Age Amended THP Score
- 3.6.12.300, DCLAD (Child) Professional Questionnaire Scoring Steps 8 & 9 - Age Amended THP Total Score
- 3.6.12.310, Answering the Professional Questionnaire
CA validation of scores
3.6.12.320, Validation of the Disability Care Load Assessment (Child) - CP (child), CA (child)
CA payability
- 3.6.7.100, Payability of CA
- 3.6.7.110, Payability of CA - Carers with Shared Care Responsibilities
CA saved cases
- 3.6.7.120, Saved Cases - CA (child) Recipients before July 1998 (Historical)
- 3.6.7.145, Assessment of CA Claim
- 3.6.4.110, Assessment of CP Claim - Other Factors
CA definitions
- 1.2.5.50, Carer Allowance (CA) - Description
- 1.1.R.90, Recognised disability (CA (child))
- 1.1.R.95, Recognised medical condition (CA)
- 1.1.C.20, Care receiver (CP)
- 1.1.C.40, Carer (CP, CA)
- 1.1.T.170, Treating health professional (THP) (CA, CP)
- 1.1.F.170, Fourteen hours rule for HCC only CA (child) (CA)
- 1.1.P.280, Physical, intellectual or psychiatric disability (CA)
- 1.1.P.230, Permanently or for an extended period (CP, CA)
- 1.1.C.21, Care receiver (CA)
Dependent child definition
1.1.D.70, Dependent child
Legislation
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Carer Allowance (CA) definitions
- section 952, Carer Allowance definitions
- section 5, Family relationships - definitions - children
- subsection (2), Dependent child - under 16
- section 7(2), Australian residence - definitions
- subsection (2), An Australian resident is a person who
CA qualifications
- section 953, Qualification for carer allowance - caring for either 1 or 2 disabled children
- section 955, Qualification for carer allowance - hospitalisation
- section 956, Absence from Australia
Social Security Guide, 8.1.7.20, Social Worker Involvement - specific payments
CA payability
- section 958, Carer Allowance not payable if allowance rate nil
- section 964, Carer Allowance not payable to 2 people for the same care receiver or care receivers unless declaration made
- section 965, Carer Allowance not payable to more than one member of a couple
- section 981, Secretary may make declaration where 2 people are qualified for Carer Allowance for the same care receiver or care receivers
- section 974, Rate of Carer Allowance