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Social Security Act 2018

Assistance - Supported living payment - Supported living payment on ground of restricted work capacity or total blindness

38: Supported living payment: on ground of restricted work capacity or total blindness: payment not apportioned in specified cases

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“Special payment rules for couples when one person is in long-term care”

If you’re in a relationship and receiving a supported living payment, there are some special rules about how much money you’ll get in certain situations.

If you’re staying long-term in a hospital or rest home because of a disability, and you haven’t had your finances checked under Part 6 of the Residential Care and Disability Support Services Act 2018, you’ll get half of the normal payment amount.

If your partner isn’t staying in a hospital or rest home, they’ll get the full amount of the supported living payment. This is the same amount they would get if they were single and getting the payment themselves.

These rules are in place to make sure that both you and your partner are taken care of, even if one of you needs to stay in a hospital or rest home for a long time.

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Supported living payment: Supported living payment on ground of restricted work capacity or total blindness

38Supported living payment: on ground of restricted work capacity or total blindness: payment not apportioned in specified cases

  1. This section applies to a person (P) who is in a relationship and who—

  2. is receiving long-term residential care in a hospital or rest home because P has a disability; and
    1. has not been means assessed under Part 6 of the Residential Care and Disability Support Services Act 2018.

      1. A supported living payment payable to P is not apportioned and must be paid at half of the appropriate rate in Part 3 of Schedule 4.

      2. A supported living payment payable to P’s spouse or partner (S) (if S is not receiving long-term residential care in a hospital or rest home) is not apportioned and must be paid at the rate in Part 3 of Schedule 4 that would be appropriate if S were entitled to a supported living payment in S’s own right and were single.

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