Definition
This cluster captures the financial assistance type(s) and amount(s) received by clients during a reporting period. It specifically relates to assistance provided by the specialist homelessness agency and not assistance provided by any other source.
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Financial assistance type |
Total amount (Dollars) |
|
Payment for short term or emergency accommodation |
$ |
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Payment for establishing/ maintaining a tenancy |
$ |
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Payment for training/ education/ employment |
$ |
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Payment for accessing external specialist services |
$ |
|
Other payment |
$ |
Metadata items in this Data Set Specification
Below is a list of all the components within this Dataset Specification.
Each entry includes the item name, whether the item is optional, mandatory or conditional and the maximum times the item can occur in a dataset.
If the items must occur in a particular order in the dataset, the sequence number is included before the item name.
| Reference | Data Element | Data Type | Length | Inclusion | # |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Person—financial assistance amount, total Australian currency N[NNNN]
Specific Information:
In the Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS, this data element is collected for the current service episode only. It relates specifically to assistance provided by the specialist homelessness agency and not assistance provided by any other source. This item is repeated 5 times to capture the total amounts for the different types of financial assistance. The client should provide dollar amounts for each type of assitance that was provided during the reference period (ie up to 5 valid responses). |
- | - | mandatory | 5 | |
|
Person—financial assistance type, homelessness code N
Specific Information:
In the Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS, this data element is collected for the current service episode only. It relates specifically to assistance provided by the specialist homelessness agency and not assistance provided by any other source. The client may check all types of assitance that applied during the reference period (ie up to 5 valid responses). |
- | - | mandatory | 5 |
References
Related content
| Relation | Count |
|---|---|
| As a numerator in an Indicator | 0 |
| As a denominator in an Indicator | 0 |
| As a disaggregation in an Indicator | 0 |