Current Grant Opportunity View - GO7358

The purpose of this grant opportunity is to provide one-off funding of the actual cost to CHSP service providers to meet the costs of increased wages of eligible aged care workers to the new minimum award wage from 1 January 2025. 

To view the grant opportunity documents, please select the red "Grant Opportunity Documents" button on the left-hand side.

Applications can only be accepted from: 

• An existing CHSP service provider that:
  • has an executed grant agreement with the Commonwealth, as represented by the Department of Health and Aged Care, to deliver CHSP services that is due to expire on 30 June 2025; and
  • employs CHSP direct and indirect aged care workers that are paid under one of the following eligible award types that are impacted by the FWC Stage 3 decision (and must provide evidence of this through a completed Employee Workforce Capture Template and where relevant Enterprise Bargaining Agreement (EBA) that shows the eligible workers and award payment type / amount):
    • Aged Care Award 2010
    • Social, Community, Home Care and Disability Services Industry (SCHADS) Award 2010 (Schedule F – Home Care) , and
  • employs CHSP aged care under one or more of the below CHSP service types:
    • Allied Health and Therapy Services
    • Assistance with Care and Housing
    • Centre Based Respite
    • CHSP Personal Care
    • CHSP Transport
    • Cottage Respite
    • Domestic Assistance
    • Flexible Respite
    • Goods, Equipment and Assistive Technology
    • Home Maintenance
    • Home Modifications
    • Meals
    • Nursing
    • Other Food Services
    • Service Systems Development
    • Social Support – Group
    • Social Support – Individual
    • Specialised Support Services

$17,100,000.00

Submit the completed application form and all necessary attachments by the closing date and time via the Online Application Form document located via the "Grant Opportunity Documents" button on the left-hand side. 

You should keep a copy of your application and any supporting documents. You will receive an automated email notification acknowledging the receipt of the submission which includes your Submission Reference ID. Retain this ID if you wish to query your application. If you do not receive an automated email notification within 48 hours of submission, please email Grant.ATM@health.gov.au 

Note the 2MB limit per attachment in the application form. Multiple files/documents should be scanned into a single document. Compressed or zip files are not accepted. File names must be unique and not include foreign characters.