Specialist Homelessness Services financial assistance type and amount cluster

Identifying and definitional attributes

Metadata item type:

Data Set Specification

METEOR identifier:

508949

Registration status:

Homelessness, Superseded 10/08/2018
Housing assistance, Standard 01/05/2013

DSS type:

Data Element Cluster

Scope:

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.

Financial assistance type	Total amount (Dollars)
Payment for short term or emergency accommodation	$
Payment for establishing/ maintaining a tenancy	$
Payment for training/ education/ employment	$
Payment for accessing external specialist services	$
Other payment	$

Relational attributes

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Implementation in Data Set Specifications:

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Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS 2013-14 Homelessness, Superseded 26/08/2014
Housing assistance, Superseded 26/08/2014

DSS specific attributes +
*Implementation start date:* 01/07/2013 *Implementation end date:* 30/06/2014 *Conditional obligation:* In the Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS, this item is only asked of clients. *DSS specific information:* In the Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS, this cluster is collected at the end of the reporting period (for the current service episode only).

Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS 2014-15 Homelessness, Superseded 24/11/2016
Housing assistance, Superseded 24/11/2016

DSS specific attributes +
*Implementation start date:* 01/07/2014 *Implementation end date:* 30/06/2015 *Conditional obligation:* In the Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS, this item is only asked of clients. *DSS specific information:* In the Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS, this cluster is collected at the end of the reporting period (for the current service episode only).

Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS 2015-17 Homelessness, Superseded 24/11/2016

DSS specific attributes +
*Implementation start date:* 01/07/2015 *Implementation end date:* 30/06/2017 *Conditional obligation:* In the Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS, this item is only asked of clients. *DSS specific information:* In the Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS, this cluster is collected at the end of the reporting period (for the current service episode only).

Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS 2017-19 Homelessness, Superseded 10/08/2018

DSS specific attributes +
*Implementation start date:* 01/07/2017 *Implementation end date:* 30/06/2019 *Conditional obligation:* In the Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS, this item is only asked of clients. *DSS specific information:* In the Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS, this cluster is collected at the end of the reporting period (for the current service episode only).

Metadata items in this Data Set Specification

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Seq No.	Metadata item																				Obligation	Max occurs
-	Person—financial assistance amount, total Australian currency N[NNNN] *DSS 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 *DSS 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

Specialist Homelessness Services financial assistance type and amount cluster

Identifying and definitional attributes

Relational attributes

Metadata items in this Data Set Specification

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