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Benefits of Special Disability Trusts

If you have a Special Disability Trust you may get a gifting concession and assets test assessment exemption.

  1. Getting aged care services
  2. Most useful information

Support at Home calculation of your cost of care form (SA456)

Use this form to give us your financial details. Don’t use this form if you get a relevant income support payment.

  1. Ageing
  2. Getting aged care services

Thinking about getting aged care services

If you’re thinking about getting some help around the house or entering an aged care home, there are services and support that can help.

  1. Top payments
  2. Continence Aids Payment Scheme

How much you can get on the Continence Aids Payment Scheme

Information about how much you can get, how we pay and why it won’t count as income.

  1. Top payments
  2. Continence Aids Payment Scheme

Who can get the Continence Aids Payment Scheme

You need to meet eligibility for the Continence Aids Payment Scheme (CAPS).

  1. Continence Aids Payment Scheme
  2. Who can get it

Residence rules for the Continence Aids Payment Scheme

To be eligible for the Continence Aids Payment Scheme you must meet residency requirements.

  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. Top payments
  2. Continence Aids Payment Scheme

Managing your payment Continence Aids Payment Scheme

What you need to do and the options you have to manage your payment.

  1. Aged care calculation of your cost of care
  2. If you’re in financial hardship

Financial hardship assistance eligibility for aged care cost of care

Not everyone can get financial hardship assistance to help with aged care costs. You will need to meet eligibility requirements to have your claim assessed.

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

Update your details if you get help with aged care cost of care

If there are any changes to you or your partner’s details, you need to let us know within 28 days.

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Page last updated: 17 November 2025.
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