Leading software that does the hard work for you.

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Develop an advice document in under
two hours.

Don’t waste time building your own spreadsheets and text templates. Aged Care Steps has done the work for you.

The leading aged care software since 2012.

With simple data input and templated SOA wording, the Advice Generator™ is fast and flexible. You can model up to five strategies and produce an advice document, with confidence in the accuracy of outcomes.

The Aged Care Steps Advice Generator™ is simple to learn and use, and there’s extensive help support within the system. It helps you save time and enables delivery of quality advice to your clients and their families.

Key features include:

Watch an overview of the Advice Generator™.

 
 
  • Unique two-stage to replicate the impact of time needed to sell or rent home

  • Calculate full cashflow, expenses (including fees), Centrelink/DVA, tax and end of year asset position

  • Select 5 or 10 year forward projections – with cash flow and asset value graphs

  • Ability to include all costs for strategy options, including capital gains tax

  • Quick to use with single data entry for modelling, that populates through to advice document template

  • Schedules showing tax, Centrelink and DAP from RAD impact

  • Additional quick stand-alone or comparison calculators

What can you model using the Advice Generator™?

 

Former home strategies:

  • Rent or sell former home (at start or at future time) or leave vacant

  • Downsize options for spouse (cheaper home or retirement village)

  • Impact of 2-year rule for Centrelink/DVA

  • Impact if protected person staying in home

  • Investment of surplus sale proceeds

Client situations:

  • Single person or couples

  • New or existing home care or residential care clients

  • Low-means clients

  • Self-funded or Centrelink / DVA recipients or non-resident clients

RAD / DAP strategies:

  • Compare different RADs and/or additional service fees

  • Select which investments to liquidate to pay fees including super, investment properties, trusts/companies, ABPs (deeming & deductible rules)

  • Strategies to deduct DAP/DAC from RAD/RAC (as well as additional service fees) starting now or at a future time)

  • Using home equity loans or borrowing from family members

When modelling aged care scenarios, the Advice Generator allows real simplicity and flexibility.