Issue 51 | 10 October 2005
The recent upgrade of FOFMS automated a number of Disability Employment Assistance (DEA) business rules specifically concerning DMI assessments and DMI reassessment dates. When DMI assessment and DMI reassessment dates are not met, FOFMS will suspend payments and exit cases in line with the DEA Programme Procedures. The following rules are automated in FOFMS:
It is your responsibility to monitor DMI assessment and DMI reassessment dates. If your clients have their payments suspended or their cases exited as a result of DMI assessment or DMI reassessment dates not being meet, you will not be back paid.
You can monitor when your service’s clients are due for a DMI assessment and DMI reassessment by simply using the predefined queries that are built into FOFMS. To access the predefined queries you will need to be in the ‘Cases’ view. Then, from the ‘Queries’ drop down menu you can select either:
If your clients are exited because a DMI assessment or DMI reassessment was not completed and authorised within the due dates, you will need to contact the FOFMS Helpdesk to request that the case status be reset to 'Return from Suspension'. Once the case status is reset you will have one month to complete and authorise the required assessment. If the required assessment is not completed within that one-month period the case will be exited again and you will need to create a new case, and complete and authorise an Intake Assessment to receive payments for supporting this client.
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The $99 million Business Service Assistance Package (BSAP) entitled “Security, Quality Services and Choice for People with Disabilities” was announced in April 2004.
The package provides flexible assistance to help Business Services to achieve long-term financial viability.
So far more than 80 Business Services have participated in the process through Financial Reviews conducted by independent financial consultants. As a result, participating Business Services have benefited from a range of assistance, including:
Business service assistance is open to all Business Services. Business Services that have yet to signal their interest in participating in the process but would like to do so are encouraged to contact their local FaCS state/territory office to discuss how to become involved.
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Did you see the special edition e-news of 28 September that details the consultations that are being conducted as part of the quality strategy evaluation?
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In preparing for your next surveillance audit by your certification body it might be useful to have another look at the workshops about each of the Disability Services Standards that are contained in the Continuous Improvement Handbook. The workshops were developed to assist services understand the compliance and continuous improvement aspects of each of the Disability Services Standards.
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The Disability Services Standards require services to provide support to individual consumers in a manner sensitive to their age, gender, and cultural, linguistic and religious background. The Continuous Improvement Handbook outlines some considerations for services supporting consumers from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, and consumers from indigenous backgrounds.
Do not forget that the Disability Services Standards are available in 14 community languages. These publications are available on the FaCS web site for you print when required.
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The BizAbility website is almost completed and will be launched in the near future.
Requests for information for individual websites have been forwarded to all organisations that do not yet have their own website. Please make sure you get your information back to us as soon as possible, otherwise your organisation’s website may not be created until the new year. We will be contacting you again in the near future about this.
A reminder for anyone who has not yet completed a user access form - please complete and return the eCommerce System Access Request form that was emailed to you on 28 July 2005 as soon as possible. If you need another copy of the form please email us at eCommerce@facsia.gov.au.
Check the e-news for further updates about BizAbility.
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