Activity test exemption for providing constant care for an adult or child with a severe disability or medical condition or frail aged.

Constant care is where a carer personally provides care on a daily basis for a 'significant period' during each day. The care may be active, supervisory or monitoring. This means, a carer should reasonably be expected to provide at least the equivalent of a normal working day in personal care.

A carer who provides constant care is someone who does not meet the income or assets tests or because the person they are caring for fails to meet the income or assets test, does not qualify for the Carer payment.

Activity test exemption for grandparent and great grandparent principal carers

If you or your partner do not receive an income support payment and you are the principal carer of a grandchild(ren)/great grandchild(ren) you will be exempt from the activity test.

A grandparent or great grandparent is defined as someone who:

has a biological grandparent/great grandparent relationship to the child, OR
is a grandparent/great grandparent as a result of:
- adoption
- step-parent relationships (this includes former partners)
- artificial conception procedures
- de facto relationships,
- surrogacy arrangements.

Being the principal carer of a grandchild/great grandchild means you provide all or at least 65 per cent of ongoing daily care for the child and you have substantial autonomy for day to day decisions about the child's care, welfare and development.

If you are the principal carer and also receive an income support payment, you may be eligible for the Additional Child Care Subsidy (grandparent) payment and entitled to 100 hours of subsidised care per fortnight at a higher rate.

This exemption does not apply if you care for a grandchild(ren)/great grandchild(ren) but not as their principal carer, or you care for your biological children.

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