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Residential Care and Disability Support Services Act 2018

Home-based disability support services

60: MSD may assess person’s financial means and required payments

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"MSD works out how much you pay for disability support services based on your money situation"

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When you apply for home-based disability support services, MSD can work out how much you need to pay for these services. They do this by assessing your financial situation, using the rules set out in Schedule 3. You will then be required to pay the amount that MSD decides, based on this assessment.

MSD can gather information about you to help them make this decision, using powers they have under clauses 1 to 7 of Schedule 6 of the Social Security Act 2018. This information can help them determine how much you need to pay for your home-based disability support services, and whether you are eligible for a particular assessment.

MSD will use this information to decide how much you need to pay, and you will be required to pay this amount, as set out in your assessment, in accordance with clause 3(e) of Schedule 6 of the Social Security Act 2018.

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Part 8Home-based disability support services

60MSD may assess person’s financial means and required payments

  1. MSD may, from time to time, on application by or on behalf of a person to whom this Part applies, assess in accordance with Schedule 3 the weekly amount that person is required to pay towards the cost of the home-based disability support services provided to that person.

  2. The person is required to pay that amount in accordance with the assessment.

  3. MSD’s information-gathering powers under clauses 1 to 7 of Schedule 6 of the Social Security Act 2018 can (in line with clause 3(e) of that schedule) be used for determining, under this Part,—

  4. the amount that a person is required to pay towards the cost of the home-based disability support services supplied to that person; and
    1. whether a person who has been so assessed is entitled to that assessment.

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