15 Cap on care costs
Care Act 2014 (2014 c 23) | Legislation

15  Cap on care costs

(1)ÌýÌýÌýÌý A local authority may not make a charge under section 14 for meeting an adult's needs under section 18 if the total of the costs accrued in meeting the adult's eligible needs after the commencement of this section exceeds the cap on care costs.

(2)ÌýÌýÌýÌý The reference to costs accrued in meeting eligible needs is a reference—

(a)ÌýÌýÌýÌý in so far as the local authority met those needs, to the cost to the local authority of having done so (as reckoned from the costs specified in the personal budget for meeting those needs (see section 26));

(b)ÌýÌýÌýÌý in so far as another local authority met the needs, to the cost to that other local authority of having done so (as reckoned from the costs so specified for meeting those needs);

(c)ÌýÌýÌýÌý in so far as a person other than a local authority met the needs, to what

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