Program · Outcome 1: Provide independent oversight of the aged care system to drive accountability and positive change through reviews, recommendations, and reporting to Parliament
Program 1.1: Office of the Inspector General of Aged Care
The Office of the Inspector-General of Aged Care provides independent oversight of the aged care system to drive accountability and positive change for older people.
Office of the Inspector-General of Aged Care, 2026-27 Portfolio Budget Statements, PDF page 9 reported
$7.8m
2026-27 Budget estimate
−$1.5m (−16.0%) on 2025-26 estimated actual
Traced to named suppliers and grant recipients
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Published lines
Each row is one line of the program’s expense table in the 2026-27 Portfolio Budget Statements – Program Expense Line Items, as published.
| Line | Kind | 2025-26 estimated actual |
2026-27 Budget estimate |
Change | Treatment | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Departmental appropriation | departmental | $11m | $7.7m | −$2.8m −26.6% | reported | 2.1.1 Prog Exp, row 757 |
| Expenses not requiring appropriation in the Budget year | departmental | $58k | $58k | no change 0.0% | reported | 2.1.1 Prog Exp, row 758 |
| Operating deficit (surplus) | departmental | −$1.3m | $0 | +$1.3m – | reported | 2.1.1 Prog Exp, row 756 |