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Coding a regular absence for Carer Payment (CP) and/or Carer Allowance (CA) when the care receiver is absent 009-06040020

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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 an example 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

Calculating start and end days

This table provides a scenario to illustrate how start and end dates are calculated for respite or hospitalisation days.

Scenario

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Start and end dates

A carer provides care on Tuesday morning and the care receiver enters respite that same day. They provide care again on the Friday afternoon when the care receiver returns home from respite. This would result in a total of two 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 two full 24 hour periods from midnight to midnight that the care receiver was absent.

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.