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  1. Carer Payment
  2. How to claim

Other forms you may need to complete - Carer Payment

When you make your claim for Carer Payment, we may ask you to give us more information.

  1. How to keep your payment
  2. Reviews

Confirm or update your caring details for Carer Payment

If you get Carer Payment, we may send you a letter asking about your caring details and address. We’ll ask you to confirm or update these details.

  1. Continence Aids Payment Scheme
  2. How to apply

Providing more information for your Continence Aids Payment Scheme application

You may need to give us extra documents as part of your CAPS application.

How we use adjusted taxable income

What you claim determines how we work out your adjusted taxable income.

  1. Carer Payment
  2. How to manage your payment

Prepare to transfer to Age Pension if you get Carer Payment

If you get Carer Payment and you’re Age Pension age, you can apply to transfer to Age Pension.

  1. Aged care calculation of your cost of care
  2. How to manage your aged care costs

Changes to your circumstances and aged care costs

We need to know about changes to your circumstances within 28 days of the change occurring.

  1. Aged care calculation of your cost of care
  2. How to manage your aged care costs

Annual and lifetime caps for your aged care costs

There are annual and lifetime caps for your aged care costs. They apply if you started care after 1 July 2014.

  1. Aged care calculation of your cost of care
  2. How to apply online

Nominate someone to deal with us if you get a DVA payment and help with aged care cost of care

If you get a Department of Veterans’ Affairs (DVA) payment and you're living in an aged care home or get a Home Care Package, you can choose a nominee to deal with us for you.

  1. Aged care calculation of your cost of care
  2. Who should apply

You own your own home for an aged care calculation of your cost of care

If you own the home you live in and you’re moving into aged care, we need to know about it.

  1. Essential Medical Equipment Payment
  2. Who can get it and how much you can get

Evidence for Essential Medical Equipment Payment

We may ask you for evidence to show you’re eligible for Essential Medical Equipment Payment (EMEP).

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