"It all happened in one week."
A fall, a hospital stay, then a social worker says Mum cannot go home. Now you are deciding what to do with hundreds of thousands of dollars, tired and upset.
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Access and ordersYou have 28 days to choose how to pay. Make it the right choice.
Don't lose over $100,000. Our aged care calculator prices RAD vs DAP and every other way to pay, on your own numbers, to show you your choices before a bad decision costs you.
Mum or Dad needs a nursing home. You have a room price, a deadline and a stack of forms. Here is what nobody mentions: there are several legal ways to pay for the room, and more than $100,000 can sit between the best one and the worst.
An adviser charges $3,500 to $9,000 to work it out, and takes weeks you may not have. This calculator does the maths in about three minutes. Every way to pay, priced and put in order, so you can spot the costly ones before you sign.
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A rough guide for a single person and a $550,000 room. The full calculator uses your real room price and works out every option.
Sound familiar?
Confused by aged care fees?
It is not your fault.
Aged care fees in Australia are hard to follow, and the people paid to explain them rarely do. You were handed all of it in one of the worst weeks of your year. If any of these sound like you, you are in the right place.
"I can't make sense of the fee letter."
RAD. DAP. Means tested amount. Hotelling contribution. Each one is a real charge with real dollars behind it, written in words nobody outside the industry uses.
"Everyone tells me something different."
The home says one thing and Centrelink says another. Your brother read something online. The friend who "went through this" was on the old rules, which changed in 2025.
"Do we have to sell the house?"
Almost everyone assumes yes. Often the answer is no, and selling when you did not have to can be one of the most expensive mistakes a family makes.
"How do I know this price is fair?"
You are quoted a room price and asked to sign. Nobody shows you what other homes charge, or what the same room costs if you pay for it another way.
So we built the missing piece.
You type in what you have. We apply the real government rules, work out every way you are allowed to pay, and put them in order. No jargon, no appointment, no sales call.
Centrelink won't show you the cheapest way
Services Australia works out what you owe. It does not tell you which way of paying
leaves your family with the most money.
The aged care home won't either
The home quotes its price. It does not have to tell you the cheapest way to pay it,
and many staff simply do not know.
An adviser will, for thousands
A specialist charges $3,500 to $9,000 and takes weeks.
That is the right call for some families. Many just need the numbers.
About three minutes, and you will know which fees apply to you and what is riding on the room. It costs nothing.
The cost of guessing
Same money. Same room.
$179,000 apart.
This is not one decision. It is four, and each one changes the next. Get two of them wrong and the money is simply gone. It is all legal, nobody writes to warn you, and you do not get a second go. Here is how that looks for two example households.
Guessed
The Mitchells: $612,000 left
- Sold the house quickly, to "be safe"
- Paid the whole room price up front, in one go
- Never checked if the government would help pay
- Did not know one of the fees even existed
Money left after 3 years
$612,000
Checked first
The Okonkwos: $791,000 left
- Kept the house and rented it out for two years
- Paid part up front and part as a daily fee
- Checked what each choice did to their Age Pension
- Knew about every fee, including the one with no limit
Money left after 3 years
$791,000
Same money in. Same room. The guess cost this much.
$179,000
That is $59,667 a year, or $163 a day, every day of the
stay. Nobody broke a rule. There are many legal ways to pay for a room, and the Mitchells were
never shown them. So they picked one and paid extra for it for the whole stay.
The report that shows your version of this costs $19.
Both households are made-up examples, to show how the choices add up. Your number will be different. That is the whole point. See how the lump sum choice alone moves it.
Your three choices
Three ways to find out what to pay.
Two of them cost you.
| Guess What most families do |
Pay an expert Aged care adviser |
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| What you pay | Nothing now, tens of thousands later |
$3,500 to $9,000 | $19, once |
| How long it takes | An afternoon of worrying | 3 to 8 weeks | About 3 minutes |
| Ways to pay compared | One, and not properly | Whatever the adviser models | Every one open to you |
| Change a number and run it again | Not applicable | A new fee | Free, as often as you like |
| Uses this year's rates | No | Yes | Yes, 20 September 2026 |
| Open at 11pm on a Sunday | Yes | No | Yes |
Families who pay too much are not careless. Usually nobody told them there was a choice to make.
Deadlines
Four aged care dates that decide what you pay
Aged care runs on deadlines. Miss one and the choice is made for you, at a price you did not pick and may not be able to undo.
To pick RAD, DAP or a mix
You get 28 days after moving in to tell the home how you want to pay: one big lump sum, a daily fee, or a mix of both. Say nothing and you are put on the daily fee, worked out at 8.51% a year. It is usually the dearest option. How the split works.
Until the house hits the pension
For two years after moving in, the old house is ignored when Centrelink works out the pension. On day 731 it counts in full, and a part pension can disappear overnight. Keep, rent or sell.
20 Sep
Fees go up twice a year
The limits and daily fees change twice a year. A sum worked out on old numbers is not a little bit wrong. It is wrong in every line. What changed this round.
A whole new set of rules
Anyone who moved in from 1 November 2025 is on a new fee system. New charges, new limits, and the home now keeps 2% a year of any lump sum, for up to five years. Old rules vs new rules.
What you get
Every way to pay, priced
and put in order
The free estimate shows roughly where you stand. The full report, the Aged Care Funding Decision Report, gives you the exact figures and ranks every option by what it leaves your family. Made to print, email to your brother or sister, and take into the meeting with the home.
Free: find out if there is a problem
- Whether the government helps pay, or you pay it all
- Which fees you have to pay, and which you do not
- The one fee everybody pays, to the cent
- A rough daily cost, as a range
- How much money is riding on the room decision
$19: see which option leaves the most
- Exactly what your income and savings add to the bill, to the cent
- Every fee shown per day, per week and per year
- Every way to pay for the room, ranked by what each one leaves your family
- If you pay the room price yourself: lump sum or daily fee, which leaves more, and by how much
- If there is a house: keep it, rent it out or sell it, compared side by side
- What each choice does to the Age Pension, in dollars
- A year by year forecast, to the end of the stay
- How much comes back to the family at the end
- The questions to ask the home and Centrelink before you sign
- The whole thing as a PDF you can print, charts included
A costly choice never shows up as a line on a bill. It is just money that is not there at the end.
How it works
Work out your aged care costs in 3 steps
If you can read a bank statement, you can use this. Simple mode asks only the questions that decide most of the cost. Advanced mode is there if you want to go deeper.
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Savings, income, the house, and the room price you were quoted. No names, no Medicare number, nothing you would not tell a bank teller.
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We apply the real government rules to your numbers. You see which fees you pay, which you do not, roughly what a day costs, and how much rides on the way you pay.
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$19 opens the full report: every way of paying worked out and put in order, so the costly one is obvious before you sign. PDF included, ready to print.
Based on the real law
Every number comes from the official fee schedule, the Aged Care Act 2024 and the Aged Care Rules 2025.
Updated when rates change
Rates change on 20 March and 20 September each year, and the interest rate every three months. Your report always says which set it used.
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One payment, and it is yours with no end date on it. Run the numbers for any home, for either parent, as often as you like. Export the PDF or make a shareable link and keep those too. We never store your card details.
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Every report comes with an assistant that has read your report: your figures, your options, your numbers. It answers questions about it in plain English. It is not a search box or a help page. It knows what your report says because it has been given it.
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Why does selling the house leave us worse off?
Because the proceeds are counted in full by the means test, while the house itself
is only ever counted up to a capped amount. On your figures that adds about
$658,000 to your assessable assets. Keeping it and renting it out
finishes $99,637 ahead over the three years.
What is a RAD in normal words?
A big deposit you hand the home, like a bond. It is refunded to the estate at the
end, minus a deduction of 2% a year. Yours would be…
An example of the kind of answer it gives, on the sample report's figures.
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It reads your report, not a script Ask why an option ranks where it does, what a term means, what changes if you stay four years instead of three. It answers from your own figures and quotes them back to you.
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Aged care costs, RAD and DAP: your questions answered
It is an assistant built for this one subject that has been given your
report and answers questions about it in plain English: why an option
ranks where it does, what a term means, what changes if an assumption changes. It
quotes your own figures back to you rather than speaking in generalities.
You do not have to use it. It sits behind one button on the report
and does nothing until you press it. Nothing in the report is held back from
somebody who never opens it.
It is never told who you are. What it receives is the figures on
your report: amounts and categories. Not your name, not your email address, not
your account, and never a Medicare number, tax file number or bank detail, because
we do not hold those. The name you can put on the report cover is optional and is
not part of what it is given. The conversation stays in your browser tab and is gone
when you close it; we record that a question was asked, never what it said.
Section 5 of the privacy policy sets out
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It explains, it does not advise. It will tell you what the rules say and what each
option costs, and it will not tell you what to do.
Everyone pays a standard daily fee of $68.93 a day. It is
set at 85% of the single pension, so it is the same for everybody.
After that it depends on your money. If your savings or income are above the limits, you
also pay up to $22.15 a day towards daily living costs like
meals and laundry, and up to $109.45 a day towards your
care. Then the room itself comes on top.
So a pensioner with modest savings might pay little more than the $68.93.
Someone who funded their own retirement and pays a full market price for a room can go
past $85,000 a year.
See four worked households.
It depends on what your money would otherwise earn, and one number settles it. If you pay for the room daily instead of as a lump sum, the fee is worked out at the government's set rate, currently 8.51%. A lump sum costs you the return you give up, plus the 2% a year the home keeps (new from 1 November 2025), less any extra Age Pension it unlocks, because a deposit is not counted in the pension assets test. Where you have the choice, the report finds the exact return at which the two come out even for your household. The full comparison.
A RAD is one big refundable lump sum for the room, and a DAP is the same room paid for day by day instead. The DAP is the room price times the government's set rate, now 8.51%, divided by 365. A RAD is paid back when the resident leaves or dies, less a deduction of 2% a year for up to five years under the rules from 1 November 2025. You can also pay part of each. RAD vs DAP explained.
You have 28 days from moving in to tell the aged care home how you want to pay: a lump sum, a daily payment, or a mix of both. Say nothing and you are put on the daily payment in full, which is usually the dearest option. You can change your mind within those 28 days. After that, changes are by agreement with the home only. How the 28 day rule works.
Yes, the balance comes back, but it is usually less than was paid. The home keeps 2% a year for up to five years under the rules from 1 November 2025, plus any daily payments or fees you agreed to have drawn from it. The balance must be refunded within 14 days of leaving, or within 14 days of the home being shown probate or letters of administration. The Commonwealth guarantees it if the home fails. What is refunded.
Often not, and it is one of the most costly and least understood choices in the whole process. The former home is counted in the aged care means test at a capped $219,858 and no more. Sell it and the proceeds count in full, which can raise the fees. Against that, converting counted assets into a refundable deposit can lift the Age Pension, because a deposit is an exempt asset for pension purposes. The two effects pull against each other and the winner changes household by household. Keep, rent or sell.
Yes, but only up to a cap. The former home is counted in the aged care means test at no more than $219,858, however much it is worth. For the Age Pension it is ignored for the first two years after moving in, then counted in full, which can cut a part pension overnight. Selling it turns it into cash that counts in full for aged care fees. How the means test works.
Yes, but only on one fee. The non-clinical care contribution has a lifetime cap of $140,652.80, shared with Support at Home, and a separate four year cap. The caps never cover the basic daily fee, the hotelling contribution or the room itself, so those keep going for the whole stay. Every cap rises on 20 March and 20 September each year. Every fee cap explained.
Because most of what you are paying an adviser for is arithmetic, and arithmetic scales. A specialist statement of advice runs $3,500 to $9,000 and takes three to eight weeks, and a large part of that is modelling exactly what this calculator models. What an adviser adds is a personal recommendation and the licence to make it. We do not do that, and we do not pretend to. What advice actually costs.
Yes, the estimate is free, with no card and no sign up. It tells you whether the government helps pay, which fees apply to you, and roughly what a day costs. The full report, which prices and ranks every way to pay, is a single payment of $19. Nothing renews and nothing expires. If the calculator cannot properly model your situation, tell us within 14 days and we will refund you.
No. We are not licensed to give financial advice, and we do not. We apply the published rules to your figures and show you what they produce: every option priced, ranked and charted, with the working shown so you can check it. It is general information, not a recommendation. The choice you make is entirely yours.
Support at Home, from 1 November 2025. Eight ongoing classifications with annual budgets from $11,010 to $80,137. Clinical care is fully government funded at 0%, independence services attract 5% to 50%, and everyday living services 17.5% to 80%. Since 1 October 2026 personal care, such as showering and dressing, is free as well. Anyone who had or was approved for a package on or before 12 September 2024 is protected by the no worse off principle. The full breakdown.
You only get one go at this. Check it first.
There is no undo. The room price is agreed in writing, the way you pay is set after 28 days, and the 2% a year deduction starts the day a deposit is paid. Three minutes now is the cheapest three minutes of the whole process.
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Aged care cost calculator: RAD vs DAP and your fees
Most calculators show what aged care costs. This one prices what you could lose by paying the wrong way, then shows every lawful way to pay side by side, so you can see for yourself which one leaves your family the most.
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Know what each choice costs before you sign
Paying for the same room the wrong way can cost your family six figures. Not in higher fees, but in the way you pay them. Most families choose without anyone showing them the other options. The full report prices every option open to you, on your own figures, so you choose on purpose.
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When you do ask it something, what it receives is the figures on your report: amounts and categories. Not your name, not your email address, not your account, and never a Medicare number, tax file number or bank detail. We do not hold those in the first place. The name you can put on the report cover is optional and is not part of what it is given. The conversation stays in your browser tab and is gone when you close it. We record that a question was asked, never what it said.
Section 5 of the privacy policy sets out exactly what does and does not travel, including who processes it.
No. You pay once and the access is yours. There is no subscription and nothing renews. PayPal handles the payment, so we never even see your card number.
Yes. One payment covers as many reports as you like, for as many people as you like, and you can save up to 20 of them to compare. If one parent goes into care and the other stays home, the calculator handles that too.
We update it every time the government does: 20 March and 20 September for the fees, and every three months for the interest rate. Run your numbers again and it uses the new ones, at no extra cost. Every report says which set of rates it used.
Email us within 14 days. If the calculator cannot properly model your situation, or something goes wrong, we will refund you. No forms, no argument. We would much rather do that than have you trust a number that does not fit.
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Worked aged care cost examples
13 households. 13 aged care bills. Every figure worked out, none typed in.
Six example households who could lose a fortune without doing anything wrong, and seven the rules already help: with the room, with help at home, or with a short stay of respite. The households are examples. Every figure is worked out by the same engine as the full report, on the current rules.
Two things to know before the numbers make sense
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There is more than one way to pay for the room
An aged care home advertises a room price, often several hundred thousand dollars. You can pay it as one big deposit that is refunded to the family later, or as a fee every day like rent, which never comes back, or as a mix of the two.
The room is identical either way. The cost over a few years is not, and the choice is yours, not the home's.
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If you do not have much, the government pays for the room
There is a point below which you are not asked to pay the room price at all. The government pays the home instead. It depends on what you own and what you earn, and the family home often counts for far less than people expect, or for nothing.
It is not automatic. Somebody has to work out that you qualify. Families who assume they do not can pay an advertised price they never owed.
Everything below is those two facts, in real dollars, for thirteen different households. The last three are about help at home and short stays, where there is no room to pay for but the same rule holds: the help only arrives once somebody checks it applies. Worked out on the current fee schedule.
None of these is you? Work out your own.
Your figure depends on your room price, your assets, your income and who still lives in the house. It takes about three minutes and costs nothing.
RAD or DAP
The Aged Care
Funding Decision Report
Prepared for Margaret Doyle
Your options, side by side
Every way Margaret can pay for this room, and what each one leaves her family after 3 years. The care and the room are the same in every option. Only the way the money is arranged changes.
Your figures at a glance
Four numbers. The rest of the report shows where they come from.
What you pay today$216.20a day$78,914 a year
Means tested amount$73.73a dayAt or over the $73.73 line: no help with the room
Ways to pay9optionsIn order of what each leaves
Most left against least left$199,329Over 3 years, everything counted
You pay the full room price (you can ask the home to lower it)
Whatever part of the room price you do not pay as a lump sum is charged daily, at the government's interest rate (the Maximum Permissible Interest Rate) of 8.51% a year. On your figures $550,000 is left unpaid, which costs $128.23 a day.
Your free result showed $108,385. That was the room charge alone, between paying it all daily and paying the biggest lump sum you can. The $199,329 above counts everything: your other fees, the Age Pension, the interest on your money and the house.
What you pay each day, and what for
There are 3 separate charges on your bill, each with its own rules. The ones marked "means tested" depend on your income and assets.
| Component | Daily | Weekly | Annual |
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| Basic daily fee | $68.93 | $483 | $25,159 |
| Hotelling contribution means tested | $19.04 | $133 | $6,950 |
| Accommodation payment means tested | $128.23 | $898 | $46,805 |
| Total | $216.20 | $1,513 | $78,914 |
Basic daily fee. $68.93 a day. It is set at 85% of the single basic Age Pension. Every resident pays it, whatever their income or assets.
Hotelling contribution (towards meals, cleaning and laundry). $19.04 a day. It starts once assessable assets pass $266,000 or assessable income passes $105,048 a year, and stops rising at $22.15 a day. It has no yearly limit, no lifetime limit and no time limit.
Non-clinical care contribution (towards personal care). You do not pay this. Your assessable assets are under $552,858 and your assessable income is under $145,818 a year.
Your room price against what other people pay
The published price is not always the price people pay. Every home has to put its room prices on My Aged Care. The federal health department also reports what new residents actually agreed to. In 2024-25, across Australia, the average published price was $539,000 and the average agreed price was $470,000. By area, metropolitan homes published $593,000 on average and new residents agreed $504,000.
Who runs the home matters too. In the same year: for-profit homes $587,000 published and $490,000 agreed, not-for-profit homes $528,000 published and $464,000 agreed, government-run homes $352,000 published and $345,000 agreed.
What a lower price is worth. Every $10,000 off the room price is $2.33 a day less as a daily payment, or $851 a year, at today's 8.51% interest rate.
Averages from the Department of Health, Disability and Ageing, Financial Report on the Australian Aged Care Sector 2024-25, Table 1.19. They are averages, rounded by the department, not medians. The Sydney figure is from published room prices on My Aged Care, as at May 2026 (9 prices).
How the government works out your share
Centrelink turns your income and your assets into one daily figure, called your means tested amount. It decides whether the government helps with your room. Here is how yours was worked out from what you entered.
| Assessable income | $35,344 |
| Less the income free area | −$36,455 |
| Counted at 50% | $0 a year |
| Income tested amount | $0.00 a day |
| Assessable assets | $354,858 |
| Less the asset free area | −$66,500 |
| Counted at 17.5%, on assets up to $219,858 | $26,838 a year |
| Asset tested amount | $73.73 a day |
| Means tested amount | $73.73 a day |
| Line for help with the room | $73.73 a day |
The yearly figures are divided by 364 to get a daily figure. That is the rule. Assets of $219,858, or income of $90,130 a year, each come to exactly $73.73 a day on their own. That is the most the government pays towards a room. If your means tested amount reaches it, the government stops helping with the room and you pay the full room price.
How your assessable assets were built
| Financial assets | $120,000 |
| Superannuation | $0 |
| Investment property | $0 |
| Other assets | $15,000 |
| Former home Counted at the capped value of $219,858 | $219,858 |
| Total | $354,858 |
How your assessable income was built
| Age Pension counted as income for aged care | $32,180 |
| Deemed income on financial assets | $3,164 |
| Total | $35,344 |
Every way to pay, from most left to least left
All 9 combinations of what happens to the house and how you pay for the room, each worked out over 3 years. The top row leaves your family the most money.
| # | Option | Lump sum | Daily payment | Fees over 3y | Pension over 3y | Left at the end | Less than the top |
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| 1 | Keep the home and rent it out - biggest lump sum you can fundcash runs out in year 3 | $53,500 | $115.76 | $222,859 | $47,376 | $997,785 | - |
| 2 | Keep the home and rent it out - Daily payment in full | $0 | $128.23 | $236,128 | $45,695 | $992,034 | −$5,750 |
| 3 | Keep the home, leave it empty - biggest lump sum you can fundcash runs out in year 2 | $53,500 | $115.76 | $220,747 | $64,360 | $949,439 | −$48,345 |
| 4 | Keep the home, leave it empty - Daily payment in fullcash runs out in year 3 | $0 | $128.23 | $233,107 | $64,360 | $945,296 | −$52,489 |
| 5 | Sell the home - Lump sum in full | $550,000 | $0.00 | $208,194 | $83,420 | $898,148 | −$99,637 |
| 6 | Sell the home - 75% lump sum, 25% daily | $412,500 | $32.06 | $242,238 | $76,139 | $882,306 | −$115,479 |
| 7 | Sell the home - 50% lump sum, 50% daily | $275,000 | $64.12 | $276,158 | $68,101 | $865,764 | −$132,021 |
| 8 | Sell the home - 25% lump sum, 75% daily | $137,500 | $96.17 | $308,442 | $44,770 | $834,663 | −$163,121 |
| 9 | Sell the home - Daily payment in full | $0 | $128.23 | $340,601 | $16,275 | $798,456 | −$199,329 |
How the order is worked out. Each option is worked forward one year at a time for 3 years. The means test is redone every year, because paying a lump sum, selling the house or spending savings changes it, and so changes the fees. "Left at the end" is the cash in the bank, plus what comes back from any lump sum, plus the house if it was kept. It already takes off the fees paid and the 2% a year the home keeps, and adds the Age Pension, the interest earned and any rise in the house value.
This is arithmetic, not advice. It shows what the numbers do on the assumptions you set. It does not know your health, your family, your tax or what matters to you, and it does not recommend any option. The choice is yours.
Lump sum or daily payment?
The biggest money choice in aged care. Pay a large lump sum that mostly comes back later, or keep your money and pay a daily amount that does not come back.
Interest rate on daily payments8.51%The Maximum Permissible Interest Rate, a year
What the home keeps from a lump sum2%a yearFor up to 5 years, since 1 November 2025
Return where they come out level7.44%Earn more and paying daily leaves more
What this compares
This compares the biggest lump sum you could pay, keeping the house ($53,500, because you must keep $66,500), with paying the whole room daily. If your money earns 7.44% a year, the two leave the same amount behind. If it earns more, paying daily leaves more. If it earns less, the lump sum leaves more.
However long the stay turns out to be, the answer is the same
The lump sum leaves more behind at every length of stay from six months to twelve years. So the answer does not depend on guessing how long the stay will be.
If the stay is longer or shorter than you assumed
| Length of stay | Pay $53,500 as a lump sum | Pay it all daily | Which leaves more |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 year | $1,006,752 | $1,005,666 | Lump sum by $1,086 |
| 2 years | $993,916 | $991,433 | Lump sum by $2,483 |
| 3 years | $949,439 | $945,296 | Lump sum by $4,144 |
| 4 years | $900,877 | $896,733 | Lump sum by $4,144 |
| 5 years | $851,052 | $846,909 | Lump sum by $4,144 |
| 6 years | $799,934 | $795,790 | Lump sum by $4,144 |
| 7 years | $747,488 | $743,344 | Lump sum by $4,144 |
| 8 years | $693,680 | $689,537 | Lump sum by $4,144 |
What the room itself costs each year, each way
Over 3 years, the room costs about $144,312 paid daily and about $140,732 paid as a lump sum, counted this way. This leaves out the means test and the Age Pension, which also change with the choice. The ranking in section 05 counts those too, which is why its gap is not the same as this one.
A daily payment is the unpaid part of the room price, times the Maximum Permissible Interest Rate, divided by 365. Nothing else goes into it. You get the rate that applies on the day you agree the room price, not the day you move in. Daily payments now rise on 20 March and 20 September each year, so they grow over a long stay. A lump sum does not.
5 more sections and 4 charts, locked for now
- 07What to do with the house
- 08Year by year
- 09What comes back to the family
- 10What stands out in your numbers
- 11What to ask before you sign anything
Everything above is real arithmetic on an invented household. Run your own and your report opens in full, on your own figures.
And you can ask it questions. Every report comes with an assistant that has read your report and explains any figure in plain English: why an option ranks where it does, what a term means, what changes if the stay is four years instead of three. It is entirely optional and does nothing until you press the button. It is given the amounts on your report, never your name, your email or your account.
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Aged care guides
Aged care costs explained in plain English
Plain English, this year's rates, and all the working shown. Written for families doing this for the first time, in a hurry, at a hard moment.
Reading helps. Seeing what it will cost your family, on your own numbers, helps more.
The home
Renting out the home in aged care: does it pay?
The rent looks like it covers the daily payment. Run the numbers before you believe it - because the rent arrives on one side of the ledger and raises your fees on the other.
Why "let the house pay for itself" can mislead
It is a natural thought. The house is sitting empty, the fees are large, so let the house pay for itself. The trouble is that renting the home changes three things at once, and only one of them is the rent.
- Rent arrives - good.
- Assessable income rises, so aged care contributions rise - bad.
- Assessable income rises, so any Age Pension falls - also bad.
How the three balance out depends on where you sit against the thresholds. A supported resident close to the line can lose the government's help with the room. Someone already at the hotelling cap, with no pension left to lose, keeps most of the rent. For many people in between, the pension loss is the biggest cost.
What the rent is really worth after costs
Start with gross rent and subtract the real costs of being a landlord: agent management at 6% to 8%, letting fees, council and water rates, insurance, repairs, and vacancy. A reasonable working figure is 25% of gross.
| Home value | Gross rent at 3.2% | Net rent | Net a week |
|---|---|---|---|
| $600,000 | $19,200 | $14,400 | $277 |
| $900,000 | $28,800 | $21,600 | $415 |
| $1,200,000 | $38,400 | $28,800 | $554 |
How rent raises your aged care fees
In the aged care income test, 50 cents in every dollar above the income free area is counted. On $21,600 of net rent, if you are already above the free area, $10,800 a year is added to the income tested amount - about $29.67 a day before caps.
What that does depends on where you sit:
- Supported resident, below the $73.73 line. Your accommodation contribution rises. If the rent pushes you over the line, you lose the government's help with the room and pay the full room price.
- Already above the line, 1 November 2025 rules. Income only adds to the hotelling contribution above $105,048 a year, and to the non-clinical care contribution above $145,818.40. Below those amounts, the rent does not change them.
- Already above the line, older rules. The rent adds to the means tested care fee, until that fee reaches its caps.
How rent cuts your Age Pension
The Age Pension income test takes 50 cents in the dollar above $226 a fortnight for a single person. $21,600 of net rent is $831 a fortnight. If the rent is your only income, the first $226 is free and the pension falls by about $303 a fortnight, or $7,878 a year. If other income (including deemed income on savings) already uses up the free area, every rent dollar counts and the pension falls by about $415 a fortnight, or $10,800 a year.
Note the ordering: the home itself stays exempt from the pension assets test for two years whether you rent it or not. It is the income that bites immediately. See how aged care changes your Age Pension.
A worked example: rent, fees and pension together
Take a single pensioner with a $900,000 home and $150,000 in savings, paying for a $550,000 room by daily payment. Their assets put them above the supported resident line and at the hotelling cap. These are first year figures:
| A year | |
|---|---|
| Net rent received | +$21,600 |
| Additional aged care contributions | $0 |
| Age Pension lost | −$10,007 |
| Holding costs avoided by having a tenant | +$1,200 |
| Net benefit | +$12,793 |
The aged care contributions do not move here, because the hotelling contribution is already at its cap and income stays far below the non-clinical care threshold. The pension loss uses the deemed income on the $150,000 of savings plus the rent. The result is positive, but it is about 59 cents in every dollar of net rent. It is also nowhere near the $46,805 a year daily accommodation payment on a $550,000 room. That is the gap between the intuition and the arithmetic.
The old rent rule that ended in 2016
Before 1 January 2016, if you rented out the former home and paid your accommodation by daily payment, the home stayed exempt indefinitely from the pension assets test and the rent was exempt too. That was a genuinely powerful strategy and it is still repeated as advice.
It was abolished for anyone entering care from 1 January 2016. Only residents who entered before that date and have maintained the arrangement continuously still have it. If someone tells you renting keeps the home exempt, check the date they are working from.
Practical things to sort before you rent
- Capital gains tax. The main residence exemption generally continues for six years after you move out while the home is rented. Sell inside that window and there is usually no liability.
- Land tax. Renting can create a liability in some states once the home stops being a principal place of residence.
- Insurance. A landlord policy is required; an owner occupier policy will not respond.
- Who manages it. An attorney or family member has to deal with tenants, tradespeople and inspections, often at a distance and at a difficult time.
- Condition. Homes vacated for aged care frequently need work before they can be let, and that cost lands before any rent does.
Rent looks like income until you see what it does to the pension and fees
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Why we built an aged care cost calculator
Aged care is one of the largest money decisions an Australian family will ever make. Many make it in a fortnight, under pressure, from a hospital corridor.
The rules are not secret. They are published in the Schedule of fees and charges, the Aged Care Act 2024 and the Aged Care Rules 2025. They are simply spread across dozens of documents, written for administrators, and indexed twice a year, which is why so few families ever see their own numbers before they sign.
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We do not tell you what to do. We are not licensed to, and it is general information, not advice. A specialist aged care adviser typically charges $3,500 to $9,000 for a written statement of advice, and takes weeks. Most of that fee pays for the same arithmetic this report does, for $19. What advice costs, and when it is worth it.
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We use Google Analytics and Google Ads to measure how people find and use the site and whether our advertising is worth running. Where these are enabled, Google receives your IP address, device and browser information, the pages you viewed, and - when you complete a purchase - the order reference and the amount paid. Google may set its own cookies and may combine this with data it holds from other sources. Google's handling of that data is governed by its own privacy policy, not ours.
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