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The Care and Support (Charging and Assessment of Resources) Regulations 2014

S.I. 2014/2672 · Made 22 October 2014 · Extends to England and Wales

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Social Care, England

Made 22nd October 2014

Laid before Parliament 30th October 2014

Coming into force in accordance with regulation 1

The Secretary of State makes these Regulations in exercise of the powers in sections 14(5) to (8), 17(7) to (13) and 125(7) and (8) of the Care Act 2014f1.C1

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Modifications

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Regulations applied (with modifications) (coming into force in accordance with reg. 1(1) of the amending S.I.) by The Care and Support (Children’s Carers) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/305), regs. 2, 13

Footnotes

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2014 c.23. The powers to make regulations are exercisable by the Secretary of State, see section 125(1). Sections 14(5) to (8) and 17(7) to (13) were commenced for the purposes of making regulations by S.I. 2014/2473. Section 17(8) was commenced in modified form.

Contents

  1. Part 1: General
  2. 1Citation and commencement
  3. 2Interpretation
  4. Part 2: Power of the local authority to charge for care and support
  5. 3Services to be provided free of charge
  6. 4Adults to whom services are to be provided free of charge
  7. 5Costs of putting in place arrangements to meet needs
  8. 6Personal expenses allowance for residents or temporary residents provided with accommodation in a care home
  9. 7Minimum income guaranteed amount for other adults and carers whose needs are being met otherwise than by the provision of accommodation in a care home
  10. 8Power of the local authority to financially assess and charge a short-term resident as if the resident is receiving care and support or support other than the provision of accommodation in a care home
  11. Part 3: Assessment of financial resources
  12. 9Financial assessment
  13. 10Circumstances in which an authority is to be treated as having carried out a financial assessment (including light touch assessments)
  14. 11Rounding of fractions
  15. 12Financial limit - capital
  16. Part 4: Treatment and calculation of income
  17. 13Calculation of income
  18. 14Earnings to be disregarded
  19. 15Other sums to be disregarded
  20. 16Capital treated as income
  21. 17Notional income
  22. Part 5: Treatment and calculation of capital
  23. 18Calculation of capital
  24. 19Income treated as capital
  25. 20Calculation of capital in the United Kingdom
  26. 21Calculation of capital outside the United Kingdom
  27. 22Notional capital
  28. 23Diminishing notional capital rule
  29. 24Capital jointly held
  30. 25Calculation of tariff income from capital
  31. Signature
  32. Schedule 1: Sums to be disregarded in the calculation of income
  33. Part 1: Sums to be disregarded
  34. 1Paragraph 1
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  51. 17AParagraph 17A
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  79. 44AParagraph 44A
  80. Part 2: Special provisions relating to charitable or voluntary payments and certain pensions
  81. 45Paragraph 45
  82. 46Paragraph 46
  83. Schedule 2: Capital to be disregarded
  84. 1Paragraph 1
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  128. Explanatory note