Regulation 13 Decisions on fund applications
(1)
Every decision on a fund application is to be communicated to the applicant in writing, unless the applicant requests otherwise.
(2)
A local authority is to make its decision on an application for a crisis grant—
(a)
immediately after the authority has received all information allowing a decision to be made; and
(b)
in any event, no later than the end of the next working day.
(3)
A local authority is to make its decision on an application for a community care grant no later than the end of the fifteenth working day after that on which the authority has received all information allowing a decision to be made.