After several months of negotiations between major parties, the government presentation It will implement it Elderly Nursing Task Force Recommendation.
Already the government I sent a signal again in March We will not impose new taxes or nursing nursing.
Today’s announcement focuses on how wealthy people will contribute to the overall cost of elderly nursing and home nursing services in the future.
Some people are not pleased with paying more, but these changes are important to ensure the long -term sustainability of the elderly nursing system.
What is changing for residential treatment?
December Task force I have written 23 recommendations to support.
Elderly nursing system that promotes sustainable and fair and promotes innovation in this sector.
With these recommendations, the government has made efforts to maintain funding for all residents’ clinical needs and provide safety net funds to residents with low financial means.
The three major proposals related to residential treatment are as follows.
1. It means testing ‘Hot Ning Supplement’.
Currently, taxpayers subsidize the cost Daily life To all residents, regardless of their means. Everyday services include catering, cleaning and washing.
In the future, people with significant financial means (combinations of more than $ 95,400 or two people with more than $ 238,000) will no longer receive this subsidy and pay an additional amount to cover these costs.
2. Introduction A Lee Yeon Rent Payment.
This is a rent for those who pay for accommodations using a refundable lump sum deposit. The payment will be taken from a refund, not an extra charge.
This will help many suppliers to overcome the long problems that have lost their costs.
3. abolish the average test treatment fee.
Instead, Contributing to non -clinical treatment after new means testing It will be introduced. This includes non -clinical treatment costs such as bath, mobility support and lifestyle activities.
How does this change affect the elderly?
Many people will not be affected by change. In accordance with the principle of “not worse,” people who already live in the elderly nursing homes will continue to pay according to their current contracts.
Similarly, people with low financial means, generally complete pension recipients without major assets are not affected. The government will continue to cover the costs of clinical treatment, non -clinical treatment and accommodations, and will continue to pay daily life through hot teling supplements.
Pensioners will use the age pension to pay 85% of age pensions ($ 445 per share).
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At the other end of the scale, people with important means, such as their own funding retirees, pay additional means test hot teling fees to meet the total costs of food, laundry, cleaning and utility. This fee (up to $ 88 per share or $ 4,581 per year) will be donated to a total of $ 533 for everyday life services.
In addition, the government will cover the cost of clinical treatment for retirees for its own funding, but it is expected to contribute to the cost of non -management services through the contribution of non -clinical treatment that has undergone average testing. This donation is limited to $ 101.16 per day (or $ 708 per share), and residents will stop paying when they reach a lifetime limit of $ 130,000 or four years.
There will be no change in the treatment of the home within the preparation of a new means of testing. The value of family houses included in the average test is limited to $ 206,039 (index) for the average test, even if you ignore the wealth of people with more than this limit.
Finally, the partial luxury beneficiaries and their own funding retirement who pay the accommodation through a refundable mass deposit Rent The same year as 2%of the deposits every year.
A room with $ 550,000 will attract $ 212 per share ($ 11,000 per share), which is deducted from $ 550,000 when it is returned to a resident or their property at the end of stay.
Depending on the situation, if someone wants to pay in the same room using a daily payment method, it is currently $ 882 per share.
At present, each resident’s daily payment is fixed at the price when it enters residential treatment. However, in the future, residents’ payments will be indexed twice a year.
The focus is on improving stock and sustainability.
It takes some time to analyze the overall influence of today’s announcement, which includes important changes in the Home at Home program and the new elderly nursing method.
Nevertheless, the proposed change is likely to improve the sustainability and equity of the Australian residential nursing system.
More than half of all elderly nursing houses are operating due to losses, and for the past four years, housing has $ 5.6 billion in accumulation loss. This is not sustainable, and all closed homes are less likely to receive residential care and support for the elderly.
The proposed changes, especially the changes around the lodging facility, help you get enough income to cover the service costs provided by the provider.
Introducing more means of testing for daily life and non -clinical treatment costs, you can better support taxpayer funds with little financial means.
Perhaps the most important thing is that if the donation of the elderly who can do so, it will improve generational capital by taking the pressure of income taxpayers who meet the cost of subsidizing elderly nursing.
