226EHome care account balance

226E  Home care account balance

Home care account

 (1) A notional home care account is established for an individual at the transition time if:

 (a) immediately before the transition time:

 (i) the individual had a home care account under the old Act; and

 (ii) the home care account balance of that account under the old Act was not zero; or

 (b) at the transition time, a registered provider holds an unspent Commonwealth portion for the individual under section 226A.

 (3) At the transition time, the amount that, immediately before the transition time, is recorded in the information technology system relating to aged care payments operated by Services Australia as the amount of the individual’s home care account balance is credited to the account.

Credit for return of unspent Commonwealth portion—provider election

 (4) If a registered provider elects to return the available balance of an unspent Commonwealth portion for the individual to the Commonwealth under section 226B, the account is credited, at the start of a day prescribed by the rules (which may be a day before the day the election is made), by the amount of that balance at the start of that day.

Credit for return of unspent Commonwealth portion—individual transfers between provider service delivery branches

 (5) If a registered provider returns the available balance of an unspent Commonwealth portion for the individual to the Commonwealth under section 226C, the account is credited, at the start of a day prescribed by the rules, by the amount of that balance at the start of that day.

Credit for return of unspent Commonwealth portion—provider ceases to deliver services

 (6) If a registered provider returns the available balance of an unspent Commonwealth portion for the individual to the Commonwealth under section 226D, the account is credited, at the start of a day prescribed by the rules, by the amount of that balance at the start of that day.

Debits for claims

 (7) If a claim is made under section 251 for person‑centred subsidy for the delivery of a funded aged care service to the individual on a day, the account is debited (if at all) in accordance with section 251B immediately after the claim is approved under subsection 251(4).

Debit to zero in prescribed circumstances

 (8) If circumstances prescribed by the rules apply to the individual on a day, the account is reduced to zero on that day.

 (9) The account ceases in the circumstances prescribed by the rules.

Division 4—Subsidy for residential care—general

Subdivision AA—When this Division does not apply