The new home care program is delayed by another year
Published 12 May 2023
Home Care will continue as is until 30 June 2025 after reform got delayed by yet another year. Here's why and what will happen next.
Budget 2024 and the further refining of Support at Home
Published 10 May 2023
Another year, another delay, it seems the Department does not know how it is going to squeeze the larger CHSP into the corset of the much smaller HCPP.
Budget of compassion is only halfway there
Published 10 May 2023
Budgets are always disappointing to many and satisfying to few. This Budget tries very hard but as the song goes, we're only halfway there.
Why it’s likely the CHSP will continue after 1 July 2024
Published 8 May 2023
The enormity of effectively merging CHSP into HCCP over the next fourteen months is such that it won't be completed by 1 July 2024, argues CPSA.
What we know about the Budget so far
Published 8 May 2023
Budget 2023 will be released tomorrow. What will be in it for older Australians? Here's what we know so far.
Can you choose not to pay for your Home Care Package?
Published 5 May 2023
Every provider can charge the Basic Daily Care Fee but many don't. Why is this so, and can you choose not to pay it if it is charged.
Pensioners show solidarity: increase JobSeeker for all regardless of age
Published 3 May 2023
The Jobseeker payment is so low that any argument not to increase it substantially across the board is just cynical politics.
Is your next home address going to be in an office tower?
Published 28 April 2023
With a housing and rental crisis raging in Australia, thoughts are turning to office-to-apartment conversions while workers resist going back to the office full-time. Is it the solution?
Open letter to Anika Wells, Minister for Aged Care
Published 28 April 2023
An open letter to the federal Aged Care Minister, Anika Wells, to express CHSP provider concerns about the transition to the In-Home Aged Care scheme.
Things you didn’t know about the $250,000 bank guarantee
Published 28 April 2023
The $250,000 bank guarantee is not as straightforward as you might think. It may literally pay to check out the detail as it applies to you.
Australia lags developed world on heart disease scanning
Published 26 April 2023
CT scanning must become the norm in the fight against heart disease. Two things need to happen: a guideline change and a Medicare change.
How the home care waiting list will disappear on 1 July 2024
Published 21 April 2023
HCPP has a waiting list, the CHSP doesn't, but merging the two will not mean there will be a combined waiting list.
The pre-Budget 2023 media circus begins
Published 21 April 2023
Deeming rates, super, cost-of-living and more: what can older Australians expect from the federal Budget on 9 May?
Online bank runs make mockery of $250,000 deposit guarantee
Published 19 April 2023
The digital world brings us digital bank runs, fast and furious, and requiring more than a $250,000 deposit guarantee.
800,000 people to pay a lot more for home care from 1 July 2024
Published 17 April 2023
From 1 July 2024, the new home care scheme will dramatically increase personal contributions for 800,000 people on cheaper home care now.
What about your poor clients from 1 July 2024?!
Published 14 April 2023
Lost in the confusion about the new IHAC program seems to be that your CHSP clients will see their personal contributions skyrocket in 2024.
Here’s a pension assets test nasty for the May budget
Published 14 April 2023
Once again a think tank has had the bright idea to wipe the budget deficit by including the family home in the assets test. Here's why it will again fail.
Would you sell to sign a forever-lease on a built-to-rent home?
Published 12 April 2023
The only way to free up home equity is to take out a reverse mortgage. Built-to-rent housing might offer an alternative solution.
The lessons from the Whitehorse and Ballarat CHSP pull-outs
Published 11 April 2023
Several local council CHSP providers have pulled out of CHSP, pointing to the risk associated with activity-based funding from 1 July 2024.
Ever wanted to complain about digital platforms?
Published 5 April 2023
The Telecom Industry Ombudsman (TIO) currently takes on complaints about phone and internet services only. It wants digital platforms as well.
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