House of Assembly Fifty-Second Parliament, Second Session (52-2) 52 2 Parliament of South Australia House of Assembly published Answers to Questions Aged-Care Services AGED-CARE SERVICES In reply to Ms CHAPMAN House of Assembly Bragg AGED-CARE SERVICES In reply to Ms CHAPMAN (Bragg) (30 June 2011) (Estimates Committee A). The Hon. J.D. HILL House of Assembly Kaurna Minister for Health and Ageing Minister for Mental Health and Substance Abuse Minister for the Arts AGED-CARE SERVICES The Hon. J.D. HILL (Kaurna—Minister for Health and Ageing, Minister for Mental Health and Substance Abuse, Minister for the Arts): I am advised: 1.	The 2011-12 Expenses Budget for Sub-program 3.1, Office for Disability and Client Services, includes an additional $26.6 million (Budget Paper 4, Volume 2, page 156) to reimburse the Commonwealth Government for the cost of services it will provide to people with a disability who are under 65 and are being accommodated within the residential aged care sector. Off-setting this expense is additional income of $58.4 million to be received from the Commonwealth Government in 2011-12 for services the State Government will provide to people 65 and over: $14.9 million in additional income for specialist disability services (Budget Paper 4, Volume 2, page 156) $26.8 million in additional income for specialist disability services (Budget Paper 4, Volume 2, page 159) $16.7 million in additional income for aged care services (Budget Paper 4, Volume 2, page 162). The combined impact of the additional expense budget of $26.6 million and the additional income budget of $58.4 million is a reduction in the net cost to the State Government of $31.8 million. To maintain budget neutrality, the Commonwealth Government will make an off-setting reduction of $31.8 million to the Disability Specific Purpose Payment to South Australia in 2011-12. Reference to this adjustment can be found in the Commonwealth Government's 2011-12 Budget Paper No.3, Part 2, page 65. The $31.8 million reduction in the Commonwealth Government's 2011-12 National Disability Agreement payment is not included in the Department for Families and Communities disability and ageing program budget but is reflected in the 2011-12 Disability Specific Purpose Payment budget in Table 3.15 of Budget Paper 3, page 49. The Commonwealth Government's Disability Services SPP payment of $82.2 million reported in this table represents the unadjusted budgeted payment of $114 million, less the $31.8 million to maintain budget neutrality.