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Residential Care and Disability Support Services Act 2018

Means assessment - Second stage: income assessment

38: Content of income assessment

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"What you pay for care services is based on your income and assets"

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When you have an income assessment, it looks at your annual income on a certain date. It decides how much you must pay each week for care services, up to a maximum amount. It also checks if your assets were below a certain threshold at any point in the 90 days before the assessment.

The 90-day period means the 90 days before your means assessment date. This is when they look at your income and assets to decide how much you pay. They use this information to make their decision.

Your income assessment is also subject to certain rules, like sections 24(1) and 26. These rules help decide how your income assessment works. They are part of the law that governs care services.

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Part 6Means assessment
Second stage: income assessment

38Content of income assessment

  1. An income assessment of a person (P) must—

  2. assess as at the date of means assessment P’s annual income; and
    1. determine a weekly contribution, up to the maximum contribution, that P must pay from income towards the cost of contracted care services provided to P; and
      1. determine if and when in the 90-day period P’s assets fell below the applicable asset threshold.

        1. In subsection (1), 90-day period means the period of 90 days before the date of means assessment.

        2. This section is subject to sections 24(1) and 26.

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