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Residential Support Subsidy : Contents

Qualifications

To get Residential Support Subsidy a person must be needs assessed by a contracted needs assessment service as requiring residential support due to:

  • physical disability or
  • sensory disability or
  • intellectual disability or
  • psychiatric disability (including drug and alcohol rehabilitation) or
  • disabling chronic health condition

Note the residential service provider must be contracted by the Ministry of Health.

Work and Income is responsible for:

  • re-directing the client's benefit contribution if authorised by the client and
  • paying a Personal Allowance if the person is getting a benefit

There is no asset test for Residential Support Subsidy.

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A person with an intellectual disability has intellectual functioning significantly below average. They may also have limitations with their behaviour (either behavioural problems or difficulty with managing day to day tasks or both).

An intellectual disability is not an illness or a disease and there may be various causes, for example; genetic, chromosomal abnormality or injury. One example of intellectual disability is Down Syndrome.