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Coding a one-off absence for Carer Payment (CP)/Carer Allowance (CA) when the care receiver is absent 009-06040010

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This page contains links to the Services Australia website for information for carers, and to the My Aged Care website for information about Commonwealth Respite and Carelink Centres. It also contains a scenario to illustrate how absences are calculated.

Services Australia website links

Information for carers of frail aged, ill or disabled persons are located on the Services Australia website.

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.

Calculating absence

Scenario

This table describes a scenario to illustrate how absences are calculated for CP and 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.