Summary
Introduced with the Health and Other Services (Compensation) Care Charges (Amendment) Bill 2014, the bill amends the: Aged Care Act 1997 to remove the workforce supplement from the list of primary supplements provided for by the Subsidy Principles; Aged Care (Transitional Provisions) Act 1997 to make consequential amendments; Health and Other Services (Compensation) Act 1995 to enable the recovery of past home care costs under the compensation payment reduction scheme; and Healthcare Identifiers Act 2010 to allow the collection, use and disclosure of information, including healthcare identifiers, for specified aged care purposes.