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Residential Care and Disability Support Services Act 2018

Means assessment - Notice of right of review

44: Funder must ensure person assessed advised of right of review

You could also call this:

"You have the right to check and challenge the result of your means assessment."

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If you have a means assessment, the funder must make sure you know you can ask for it to be reviewed. The funder must also tell you if there are any changes to the rules used for means assessments, such as changes to how much money or assets you can have, that might affect your assessment result. You can find more information about the personal allowance in section 24(2).

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Part 6Means assessment
Notice of right of review

44Funder must ensure person assessed advised of right of review

  1. A funder must take all practicable steps to ensure that a person who has undergone a means assessment (P)—

  2. is advised of the right to apply for a review of P's means assessment; and
    1. is notified whenever a change is made to the tests used in means assessments (such as an increase to applicable asset thresholds, or a change to the personal allowance (as defined in section 24(2))) that might mean that, if P's means assessment were reviewed, the result would be different from the result of P's latest means assessment.

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