Claim
Your ISS Approval Letter will detail the hours and subsidy contribution that have been approved for your service. At the end of every quarter you must make an ISS Claim for Payment in line with the subsidy approved for your service and the ISS Guidelines.
New streamlined Claim for Payment Forms and Attendance Records have been developed to accompany the 2009-12 IPSP Guidelines.
Step 1: Centre Based Services: Employ your additional worker and complete the daily Attendance Record
Each day that an additional worker (subsidised through the ISS) attends your service
s/he must initial their hours of attendance on the Attendance Record.
A record must also be kept of the hours that the child/ren with ongoing high support
needs attends your service. Services are periodically audited by the NISSP and you
may be required to provide relevant documentation to verify your Claim for Payment.
Step 1: Home Based Services: Complete the daily Attendance Record
Each day an ISS funded child attends your Home Based Care service the Carer must
write down the hours the child/ren actually attends care and initial the Attendance
Record.
Services are periodically audited by the NISSP and you may be required to provide
relevant documentation to verify your Claim for Payment.
Step 2: All Services-Complete the ISS Claim for Payment Form
At the end of each quarter, complete the relevant Claim for Payment Form.
2010 Quarter Dates and closing dates for submission of claims
Vacation Care Services may submit one Claim for Payment form at the end of each
Vacation period to cover the whole Vacation period. These claims must be submitted
to the NISSP by the closing dates above to receive payment.
Step 3: Send the Claim for Payment Form and Attendance Record to the NISSP
At the end of each quarter, you must submit the Claim for Payment Form and
Attendance Record within 60 days to receive payment (claims made later than 60
days after the quarter end will not be paid).
Step 4: NISSP will process claim and transfer payment
The NISSP will process your claim form and then transfer your payment electronically
to your bank account. You will be emailed a Payment Advice when this is complete.
If you have any queries relating to your Claim for Payment or you need any further
information please see our FAQs or contact us.