The Department of Human Services acknowledges it has up to 10,000 people in need of residential aged care that cannot be processed due to a failure of Centrelinks computer systems. They were not ready to process income and assets testing introduced on 1 July.
The assessment is now required to identify how much the residents will have to contribute to their aged care. The Department is manually carrying out the calculations and issuing the determination letters.
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A first: residents petition council wanting an over-55s retirement community
A petition signed by more than 100 people within four days in Bannockburn, 88km southeast of Melbourne’s CBD, demanding a lifestyle village was raised at Golden Plains Shire’s council meeting. “We would like to ask our elected council to encourage...