Aged Care (Flexible Care Subsidy Amount - Multi-Purpose Services) Determination 2013 (No. 2)
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7 Category B services
(1) A multi‑purpose service meets the requirements of this subsection if: (a) the service was in operation on 31 December 2004, and, on that date, the point score of the service would have been at least 40 points, under the scoring system set out in the following table; and (b) on 1 January 2005, either: (i) the point score of the service was less than 50 points, under the scoring system set out in the table in subsection 8(1); or (ii) the point score of the service was at least 50 points, under that scoring system, and the viability supplement equivalent amount specified in Schedule 3 for a day in respect of the service as a Category B service was more than the viability supplement equivalent amount so specified in respect of the service as a Category C service.
| Item | Criterion | Points |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Location: | |
| 2 | (a) very remote location | 60 |
| 3 | (b) remote location | 50 |
| 4 | (c) moderately accessible location | 40 |
| 5 | (d) accessible location | 30 |
| 6 | (e) highly accessible location | 0 |
| 7 | Places: | |
| 8 | (a) less than 20 | 30 |
| 9 | (b) more than 19 but less than 30 | 20 |
| 10 | (c) more than 29 but less than 45 | 10 |
| 11 | More than 50% of care recipients are people with special needs (other than people who are people with special needs only because they live in rural or remote areas or they are financially or socially disadvantaged) | 10 |
(2) In this section:
accessible location means a location that has an ARIA value of more than 1.84, but not more than 3.51.
ARIA value, in relation to a location, means the value given to that location in accordance with the methodology set out in the document titled Measuring Remoteness: Accessibility/Remoteness Index of Australia (ARIA), Occasional Papers: New Series Number 14, published by the Department in October 2001, as the document exists on 1 July 2013.