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Residential Care and Disability Support Services Act 2018

Home-based disability support services

66: MSD must review, and may revise, assessment

You could also call this:

"MSD checks and updates support payments to ensure people get the right amount of help."

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MSD has to check assessments from time to time to make sure they are correct. You can think of an assessment like a report that says how much a person can pay for their home-based disability support services. MSD can change the assessment if it is wrong, or if the person does not give them the information they need.

MSD can also change the assessment if the person's situation changes, like if they get a new job or move to a new house. If MSD changes the assessment because of a change in circumstances, the new assessment will start from the date the change happened, or from a later date that MSD decides.

MSD makes these decisions to ensure people get the right amount of support, you can find more information about this in the Residential Care and Disability Support Services Act 2018 and similar laws like the one mentioned here.

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Part 8Home-based disability support services

66MSD must review, and may revise, assessment

  1. MSD—

  2. must from time to time review an assessment under this Part; and
    1. may revise that assessment if—
      1. MSD is satisfied the assessment is in error; or
        1. the person to whom the assessment relates or that person’s spouse or partner fails to provide any relevant information requested or to answer any relevant question; or
          1. after reviewing the assessment, MSD is satisfied that, owing to a change in circumstances of that person or that person’s spouse or partner, the assessment is no longer an accurate reflection of that person’s ability to pay for that person’s home-based disability support services.

          2. A revised assessment under subsection (1)(b)(iii) takes effect from a date MSD determines (being a date that is, or is after, the date on which the change of circumstances concerned may reasonably be held to have occurred).

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