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Residential home/hostel - Child Disability

This provides a definition of residential home/hostel in regard to Child Disability.

A residential home for the purposes of Child Disability Allowance is either:

  • the caregiver's home or
  • a home or hostel run by a voluntary organisation where the child returns home for weekends or school holidays and where the client has to pay towards the child's care.
Last updated: 21 June 2011