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Caring for a person

A client applying for Supported Living Payment on ground of caring for a person must provide full-time care and attention to a person (other than their partner), at home who would otherwise need:

The Supported Living Payment can be paid to a parent who is required to provide full-time care and attention at home, to their dependent child who has a significant disability, and as a result has high care needs of a type listed above.

This is not meant to be paid to parents for children who need only the levels of care required for children typical of their age.

During the assessment process it is important to make sure that the applicant and their family, where appropriate, receive their full and correct entitlement and they are referred to organisations (such as Carers New Zealand) to access all services available. You should consider this when granting, as well as when declining an application.

Funded Family Care

Funded Family Care is paid to carers aged 16 or over for providing personal care and household management. 

From 2 June 2020 partners and carers over the age of 16 can be included as a carer for Funded Family Care. 

If a client gets Funded Family Care payments and also qualifies for Supported Living Payment caring for a person, the Funded Family Care payments are treated as income.

For more information see:

Legislation

  • Supported living payment: on ground of caring for another person: requirements section 40 Social Security Act 2018
  • Agreements for extended care of severely disabled children and young persons section 141 Oranga Tamariki Act 1989
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Rest home care is the level of care provided for the care and attention of people whose needs cannot be met in their own home with home-based services, generally because of their age-related needs.

This may be rest home care, continuing care (commonly called hospital-level care), dementia care, or specialised hospital care (commonly called psychogeriatric care).

Legislation

Extended care is the level of care provided for the care and attention of a child or young person where the extent of their disability is such that suitable care can be provided only by an approved organisation or body. In some cases, the extended care arrangement may be an approved foster care placement.

This kind of care is facilitated by Oranga Tamariki through a Family Group Conference under section 141 ...

The Oranga Tamariki Act 1989 is also known as the Children's and Young People's Well-being Act 1989. It was previously known as the:

Hospital care is the level of care provided by a non-government organisation (NGO) or District Health Board (DHB) as an in-patient or residential hospital care, including geriatric hospital-level care.

Hospital care is more than the level of care provided if a person is solely seeing a hospital specialist or receiving out-patient care.

Legislation

Residential disability care is the level of care provided for the care and attention of children, young people and adults whose needs cannot be met in their own home with home-based services, generally because of their disability/impairment related needs.

Legislation