Federal Budget 2022-23

ACSA has compiled an initial overview of key budget figures and announcements relating to ageing and aged care. At a glance figures are outlined below with a more detailed summary available for members. 

We will continue to analyse the budget over coming days and provide additional detail to members via ACSA Weekly, and at this Friday's Federal Budget Briefing webinar.
 

Download ACSA's initial 2022-23 Federal Budget Summary

Budget at a glance for Ageing and Aged Care

Response to the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety:

► 215,289 additional Home Care packages since 2013:

     o 163,105 since 2018, which includes 40,000 additional Home Care packages in 2022–23.

► Improved administration of Medication Management in Residential Aged Care through on site pharmacists and community pharmacy services ($345.7m)

► Growing the workforce through training including an additional 15,000 low fee and free training places supported by the JobTrainer Fund ($48.5m)

► Strengthening providers through better quality monitoring ($21.6m)

► Residential Aged Care Services Sustainability Transition Fund ($20.1m)

► Regional Stewardship governance model extension ($6.1m)

► Multidisciplinary Outreach Service ($22.1m)

COVID 19 related:

► Aged Care Workforce Bonus Payments ($215.3m in 2022–23, and $657.5m since March 2020)

► Extension of the Aged Care Preparedness Grant ($124.9m)

► Pathology testing in aged care ($22.1m)

► Infection prevention and control ($37.6m)

► Training nurses to immunise in aged care ($50.4m)

► Ensuring aged care has appropriate personal protective equipment ($1.09b)

Download ACSA's initial 2022-23 Federal Budget Summary

Click here to view ACSA's analysis of the 2021-22 Federal Budget

Budget in the Media

Media Releases

• 31 March: Aged care providers Budget in Reply 2022 response

• 31 March: Providers support 24-hour nurse coverage, but where is the funding and the workers to make it possible?

• 29 March: Aged Care Providers Budget 2022 Response

• 28 March: Aged care Budget 2022: What’s needed to pay workers better and improve quality of care

• 23 March: Cost Of Living Pressure Pushing Aged Care Workers To The Brink Of Poverty Line, fuelling workforce shortage: New Analysis

In the Media

31 March

• ‘No one respects us’: Aged care workers call on Labor to deliver higher wages, The Age

• 2022 Budget: Training boost for workers but no wage increase, Aged Care Insite

30 March

• Budget fails to deliver for aged care workers, say peaks and providers, Australian Ageing Agenda

• Aged care workers biggest losers in Federal Budget, Aged Care Guide

• Aged care sector frustrated but 'not surprised' calls for wage increases ignored in federal budget, ABC News

• Budget 2022: Aged-care workers frozen out, The Australian

29 March

• Will wages rise in aged care? ABC Radio

• Aged care sector looking for more funding and reform in soon-to-be-released Federal Budget, Aged Care Guide

• Aged care sector 'not expecting' budget relief for struggling workforce, ABC AM Radio

• Report questions where $10-a-day aged care food budget is being spent, The Sydney Morning Herald

• 891 ABC Adelaide

24 March

• Aged care workers struggle to access $800 Fed Govt payments as peaks call for wages boost, The weekly Source

23 March

• AACC calls to increase wages for the Aged Care sector ahead of the federal election, ABC News radio

22 March

• AACC Proposing a package of support for the Aged Care sector,  4BC 1116 News Talk