Budget Savings (Omnibus) Act 2016 (55 of 2016)

Schedule 18   Pension means testing for aged care residents

Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986

8   After subsection 5LA(8)

Insert:

(8A) Subsection (8) does not apply in relation to a person who first enters a residential care service or a flexible care service on or after the commencement of this subsection.

(8B) Subsection (8) does not apply, and never again applies, in relation to a person if:

(a) the person enters a residential care service or a flexible care service on or after the commencement of this subsection; and

(b) that entry occurs more than 28 days after the day the person last ceased being provided with residential care or flexible care through a residential care service or a flexible care service (other than because the person was on leave).

(8C) An expression used in subsection (8A) or (8B) and in the Aged Care Act 1997 has the same meaning in that subsection as in that Act.