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Residential aged care · work with your quote

Your aged-care
quote budget.

Bring together the daily amounts in your written quote and fee advice. See what you know, what still needs checking and a budget for up to 31 days.

Start with your daily figures

Enter each charge once, in Australian dollars. Leave an unknown amount blank. Enter 0 only when you have confirmed no charge applies.

This tool adds the amounts you supply. For an estimate of your assessed fees, use the official My Aged Care fee estimator (opens in a new tab).

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1. Your quote

Date of written figures (optional)

Keep the quote and fee advice with your printed brief. No upload is needed.

Days in this budget

Assumes the same quoted amounts every day. A 28-day budget is four weeks, not a calendar month.

2. The five daily amounts

Basic daily fee ($ per day)

Copy the current daily amount from the home's written figures.

Daily accommodation charge — DAP or DAC ($ per day)

Use the daily payment or contribution quoted for your chosen payment arrangement. Confirm this amount if you plan to pay a lump sum.

Which assessed contribution does your fee advice show?

Use one arrangement: hotelling plus non-clinical care contributions, or the means tested care fee. Your fee advice determines which applies.

Assessed contributions combined ($ per day)

Choose the wording on your fee advice first. Keep the basic daily fee and DAP/DAC out of this amount.

Optional services ($ per day)

For example, a quoted higher everyday living fee. Check what you would receive and whether you want it.

Other daily costs ($ per day)

Only other known daily charges. Keep one-off and occasional bills separate, and do not repeat the fees above.

3. Accommodation lump sum (optional) Refundable accommodation lump sum you plan to pay ($)

Record a planned RAD or RAC separately. It is never added to the daily fees or used to recalculate your DAP/DAC here.

Your entries stay on this page. They are not saved, sent to us or included in links. Print your brief to keep a copy.

Your quote snapshot

Daily fees over 28 days

Not yet known

Enter the five daily amounts to complete this budget.

The same quoted amounts on every selected day. Any changes to fees or your payment arrangement need an updated quote.

Known daily subtotalNot yet known

Known subtotal over 28 daysNot yet known

What is included

Your five daily amounts and their selected-period equivalents
Daily line	Per day	28 days
Your entered amounts will appear here.

Still to confirm

Your separate accommodation lump sum

Not entered (optional)

This is separate from ongoing fees. Retention and other deductions may reduce the eventual refund; this tool does not calculate them.

Fees and payment sources are different

This is a budget of quoted charges. If fees are deducted from your accommodation deposit, it cannot tell you what will leave your bank account or what deposit balance will remain.

Take these questions back to the home

Does each daily amount match my current fee advice and chosen accommodation payment?
Will any amount change during these days, and what one-off or occasional bills sit outside this budget?
Which charges will be invoiced to me, and which could be deducted from my accommodation deposit?
What retention or other deductions could reduce my eventual accommodation refund?

Help with the figures

My Aged Care: costs and fees (opens in a new tab) · Official fee estimator (opens in a new tab) · Accommodation payments and deductions (opens in a new tab)

Source context checked 11 November 2026. Use current written figures: this tool contains no fee rates and does not assess your means, decide your fee arrangements or forecast refunds. The total covers only the daily lines entered.

Your aged-carequote budget.