Emergency Benefit : Contents
Private hospital and homes
Emergency Benefit can be paid at the full rate regardless of the period of hospitalisation when a client is:
- admitted to a private hospital or
- admitted to a private home that provides residential care disability services
If the client receives Extra Help this will need to be reviewed to see if their costs are continuing.
For more information see:
Transfer from home to hospital
If a client is a resident of a home and has been transferred to a hospital, their rate of payment can be reduced when they have been in hospital for 13 weeks.
Continue payment to the home unless the client requests otherwise. Increase the client's benefit to the appropriate full rate, if it has been reduced, from the day the client is transferred back to the home.
