PART 5CHARGING AND FINANCIAL ASSESSMENT

Charging for meeting needs

64Regulations about financial assessments

1

Regulations must make provision for and in connection with carrying out financial assessments.

2

The regulations must make provision for—

a

calculating income;

b

calculating capital.

3

The regulations may also make provision for the following matters (among other matters)—

a

the treatment, or non-treatment, of amounts of a specified type as income or as capital;

b

cases or circumstances in which a person is to be treated as having financial resources which exceed a specified level (which may include, for example, cases in which the person being assessed has failed to provide to a local authority, upon request, information or documents in the person’s possession or under the person’s control);

c

cases or circumstances in which a new financial assessment must or may be carried out.