Aged care subsidies and supplements

Subsidies

The Australian Government pays approved providers a subsidy for each person receiving government-subsidised aged care. Paying subsidies is one of the main ways the Government funds aged care in Australia. 

Find out about the: 

• residential aged care subsidy 

• Home Care Package Program subsidy 

• residential respite subsidy 

• flexible care subsidy for the Short-Term Restorative Care Programme 

• flexible care subsidy for the Transition Care Programme

Supplements

Supplements help to cover the cost of meeting specific care needs. The Government includes supplement amounts in subsidy or grant payments. 

Find out more about: 

• Home Care Package supplements 

• residential aged care supplements 

• residential respite supplements

Following is a list of all aged care supplements. Find out about the care types they apply to, eligibility and whether you need to apply.

• Accommodation charge top-up supplement 

• Accommodation supplement

• Basic daily fee supplement

• Concessional resident supplement

• Dementia and cognition supplement

• Enteral feeding supplement

• Hardship supplement

• Higher accommodation supplement

• Homeless supplement

• Oxygen supplement

• Pensioner supplement

• Respite incentive supplement for high-level respite care

• Top-up supplement

• Transitional accommodation supplement

• Veterans' supplement

• Viability supplement

• Viability supplement expansion

Subsidy and supplement rates