Qualification—child with a severe disability or severe medical condition
197B Qualification—child with a severe disability or severe medical condition
Child with a severe disability or severe medical condition
A person is qualified for a carer payment if:
the person personally provides constant care for a person (the care receiver) aged under 16 with a severe disability or severe medical condition; and
the person has been given a qualifying rating of intense under the Disability Care Load Assessment (Child) Determination for caring for the care receiver; and
a treating health professional has certified in writing that, because of that disability or condition:
the care receiver will need personal care for 6 months or more; and
the personal care is required to be provided by a specified number of persons; and
the provision of constant care by the person severely restricts the person’s capacity to undertake paid employment; and
the requirements of subsections (2), (3) and (4) are met.
Constant care in home
The constant care must be provided in a private residence that is the home of the care receiver.
Person must be Australian resident
The person must be an Australian resident.
For Australian resident see section 7.
Care receiver: residence and income and assets tests etc.
The care receiver must:
require constant care; and
be an Australian resident; and
pass the income test under section 198A; and
either:
pass the assets test under section 198D; or
be the subject of a decision in force under subsection 198N(2), (3) or (4) that subparagraph (i) does not disqualify the person providing the constant care from carer payment.
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