Social Security (Personal Care Support - NSW Lifetime Care and Support Scheme - direct funding of treatment, rehabilitation and care services) Determination 2014
Social Security Act 1991
I, KEVIN ANDREWS, Minister for Social Services make this determination under section 35A of the Social Security Act 1991.
Dated: 26 May 2014
Kevin Andrews
Minister for Social Services
1 Name of instrument
This determination is the Social Security (Personal Care Support - NSW Lifetime Care and Support Scheme - direct funding of treatment, rehabilitation and care services) Determination 2014.
2 Commencement
This determination commences on the day after it is registered.
3 Revocation of Previous Determinations
The following Determinations are revoked:
Social Security (NSW Lifetime Care and Support Scheme – Self-purchasing of treatment, rehabilitation and care services) (DEEWR) Determination 2011 (Federal Register of Legislative Instruments number F2011L01018);
and
Social Security (NSW Lifetime Care and Support Scheme – Self-purchasing of treatment, rehabilitation and care services) (FaHCSIA) Determination 2011 (Federal Register of Legislative Instruments number F2011L00980).
4 Personal care support scheme
The scheme for the provision of personal care support known as the NSW Lifetime Care and Support Scheme – direct funding of treatment, rehabilitation and care services, established pursuant to subsection 11A(4) of the Motor Accidents (Lifetime Care and Support) Act 2006 (NSW), is an approved scheme for the purposes of paragraph 8(8)(zi) of the Social Security Act 1991 (the Act).
Note: Paragraph 8(8)(zi) provides that a payment towards the cost of personal care support services for the person, being a payment made under a scheme approved under section 35A of the Act, is not income for the purposes of the Act.