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Residential Care and Disability Support Services Act 2018

Special case persons - Exempt persons

24: Exempt person liable to contribute benefit only

You could also call this:

"Exempt people pay for some of their care using their benefit, minus a small amount they can keep."

Illustration for Residential Care and Disability Support Services Act 2018

If you are an exempt person, you have to pay part of the cost of your long-term residential care. You pay the amount of benefit you get, minus a personal allowance. The rest of the cost is paid by a funder. The personal allowance is an amount of benefit that you do not have to use to pay for your care, as set out in regulations made under section 74 and listed in Schedule 2. You can find more information about this in the regulations and schedules, which explain how the personal allowance works and how it affects what you have to pay.

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Exempt persons

24Exempt person liable to contribute benefit only

  1. An exempt person is liable to contribute to the cost of that person’s LTR contracted care the amount of any benefit that P receives, less the personal allowance, and a funder must pay the balance of the cost.

  2. Personal allowance, in this Act and Schedule 2, means an amount of benefit, specified in regulations made under section 74, that a person is not required to contribute to the cost of LTR contracted care provided to the person.

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