Notice Type
Departmental
Notice Title

Maximum Contribution Applying in Each Territorial Local Authority Region From 1 July 2008

Under section 152 of the Social Security Act 1964, the Director-General of Health is required to notify the maximum contribution that applies in each region.
The maximum contribution is the maximum weekly amount (inclusive of GST) that a resident assessed as requiring long-term residential care (through a needs assessment and services coordination agency) is required to pay for contracted care services provided to them in the region in which their rest home or continuing care hospital is located.
Contracted care services are services provided to needs-assessed people in a rest home or continuing care hospital that has a contract with a district health board. The services provided are those necessary to meet the person’s assessed care needs in accordance with the agreement between the district health board and the residential care provider.
The agreement covers residents who are:
? eligible for the residential care subsidy (as determined through a financial means assessment under section 141 of the Act); and
? entitled to have funding paid on their behalf to cover the difference between the maximum contribution and the cost of contracted care services provided to them (as determined under section 140 of the Act).
The maximum contribution is the same for all residents regardless of the type of contracted care services they receive.
The maximum contribution set by this New Zealand Gazette notice applies from 1 July 2008 and replaces the previous maximum contribution notice published in the New Zealand Gazette, 28 June 2007, No. 74, page 1891.
It is equivalent to the most recent, nationally agreed rest home contract price applying to residential care facilities in each territorial local authority region.
The maximum contribution will change only when a new maximum contribution is gazetted.
New maximum contributions will reflect changes to rest home contract prices that usually result from the annual review of the residential care contract between district health boards and residential care providers.
Region: Territorial Local Authority District Health Board Maximum Contribution Weekly (GST Inclusive)
Far North District Northland 726.32
Whangarei District Northland 745.57
Kaipara District Northland 726.32
Rodney District Waitemata 767.41
North Shore City Waitemata 791.56
Waitakere City Waitemata 772.38
Auckland City Auckland 794.64
Manukau City Counties Manukau 785.05
Papakura District Counties Manukau 767.41
Franklin District Counties Manukau 743.26
Thames-Coromandel District Waikato 729.68
Hauraki District Waikato 729.68
Waikato District Waikato 729.68
Matamata-Piako District Waikato 729.68
Hamilton City Waikato 752.08
Waipa District Waikato 729.68
Otorohanga District Waikato 723.10
South Waikato District Waikato 723.10
Waitomo District Waikato 726.39
Ruapehu District (part in Waikato) Waikato 726.39
Western Bay of Plenty Bay of Plenty 743.26
Tauranga District Bay of Plenty 756.77
Whakatane District Bay of Plenty 739.27
Kawerau District Bay of Plenty 726.32
Opotiki District Bay of Plenty 726.32
Taupo District Lakes 745.57
Rotorua District Lakes 745.57
Gisborne District Tairawhiti 728.00
Wairoa District Hawke’s Bay 742.35
Hastings District Hawke’s Bay 742.35
Napier City Hawke’s Bay 742.35
Central Hawkes Bay District Hawke’s Bay 726.32
New Plymouth District Taranaki 742.35
Stratford District Taranaki 726.32
South Taranaki District Taranaki 729.68
Ruapehu District (part in Whanganui) Whanganui 726.39
Wanganui District Whanganui 729.68
Rangitikei District Whanganui 726.32
Manawatu District MidCentral 726.32
Palmerston North City MidCentral 739.27
Tararua District MidCentral 726.32
Horowhenua District MidCentral 726.32
Kapiti Coast District MidCentral 745.57
Kapiti Coast District Capital & Coast 745.57
Porirua City Capital & Coast 745.57
Wellington City Capital & Coast 772.66
Upper Hutt City Hutt Valley 739.27
Lower Hutt City Hutt Valley 758.24
Masterton District Wairarapa 728.00
Carterton District Wairarapa 726.32
South Wairarapa Wairarapa 726.32
Tasman District Nelson Marlborough 761.74
Nelson City Nelson Marlborough 761.74
Marlborough District Nelson Marlborough 739.27
Buller District West Coast 723.10
Grey District West Coast 723.10
Westland District West Coast 723.10
Kaikoura District Canterbury 743.26
Hurunui District Canterbury 729.68
Waimakariri District Canterbury 743.26
Christchurch City Canterbury 748.86
Banks Peninsula District Canterbury 748.86
Selwyn District Canterbury 743.26
Ashburton District Canterbury 732.83
Timaru District South Canterbury 729.68
Mackenzie South Canterbury 723.10
Waimate District South Canterbury 723.10
Dunedin City Otago 739.27
Clutha District Otago 723.10
Waitaki District Otago 723.10
Central Otago District Otago 726.32
Queenstown-Lakes District Otago 758.66
Queenstown-Lakes District Southland 758.66
Southland District Southland 723.10
Gore District Southland 723.10
Invercargill City Southland 726.32
Copies of the maximum contribution amounts and other information about income and asset testing can be found on the Ministry of Health website
http://www.moh.govt.nz/assettesting
Needs assessment and service co-ordination agencies, the Residential Care Subsidy Unit of the Ministry of Social Development and residential care providers will also be able to advise the maximum contributions applying in each region.
Dated at Wellington this 13th day of June 2008.
STEPHEN MCKERNAN, Director-General of Health.