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SOCIAL SECURITY ACT 1991 - SECT 954 Qualification for carer allowance--caring for a disabled adult in a private home of both the adult and the carer

SOCIAL SECURITY ACT 1991 - SECT 954

Qualification for carer allowance--caring for a disabled adult in a private home of both the adult and the carer

  (1)   A person is qualified for carer allowance for a disabled adult (the care receiver ) if:

  (a)   the care receiver is an Australian resident; and

  (b)   the care receiver is a family member of the person or is a person approved in writing by the Secretary for the purposes of this paragraph; and

  (c)   the care receiver has been assessed and rated under the Adult Disability Assessment Tool and given a score under that assessment tool of at least 30, being a score calculated on the basis of a professional questionnaire score of at least 12; and

  (d)   because of the disability from which the care receiver is suffering, the care receiver receives care and attention on a daily basis from the person, or the person together with another person, in a private home that is the residence of the person and the care receiver; and

  (f)   the person is an Australian resident; and

  (g)   the person satisfies the carer allowance income test under section   957A.

Note 1:   For family member see subsection   23(1). For Australian resident see section   7.

Note 2:   For qualification for carer allowance in circumstances of hospitalisation, see section   955.

Note 4:   For the effect of temporary cessation of care and attention on carer allowance, see section   957.

Note 5:   For the effect of 2 people being qualified for carer allowance, see sections   964 and 965.

Disabled adult does not qualify for carer allowance for another disabled adult

  (2)   If a person is qualified for carer allowance for a disabled adult, the disabled adult is not able to qualify for carer allowance for another disabled adult.

Person cannot qualify for more than 2 carer allowances

  (3)   A person may qualify for carer allowance under this section and/or section   954A for 2, but no more than 2, disabled adults.

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