If you are an elderly victim of crime, you do not have to pay for your Long Term Residential care. The person or organisation that funds your care, called a funder, must pay the full cost of your care. You can find more information about this by looking at the law from 1986.
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View the original legislation for this page at https://legislation.govt.nz/act/public/1986/0120/latest/link.aspx?id=LMS41582.
A person who is an elderly victim of crime is not liable to contribute any amount to the cost of that person’s LTR contracted care and a funder must pay the whole of that cost.
