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Regulation 9 Net payments or gross paymentsI1

England and Wales

(1)

When a local authority decides to make direct payments, whether under regulation 2 or regulation 14 of these Regulationsf1, it must decide whether to make them as net payments or gross payments.

(2)

In deciding whether to make net payments or gross payments a local authority must take into account the effect on A having regard to A’s financial circumstances.

Annotations

Commencement

I1

Reg. 9 in force at 6.4.2016, see reg. 1(2)

Footnotes

f1

Before making a decision about whether to make direct payments a local authority will have carried out a financial assessment in accordance with regulation 6 of the Care and Support (Financial Assessment) (Wales) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/1844 (W. 272)) and will have made a determination in accordance with regulation 20 of the Care and Support (Charging) (Wales) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/1843 (W. 271)).