Long-term Care Insurance (Guernsey) (Rates) Ordinance, 2024

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The Long-term Care Insurance (Guernsey) (Rates) Ordinance, 2024

THE STATES, in pursuance of their Resolutions of the 23^rd October 2024[a], and in exercise of the powers conferred on them by sections 5 and 31 of the Long-term Care Insurance (Guernsey) Law, 2002[b] and all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby order:-

Rates of benefit.

1. (1) The maximum weekly rates of care benefit shall be -

(a) for persons resident in a residential home -

(i) £636.51, or

(ii) where also receiving EMI care, £831.95, and

(b) for persons resident in a nursing home or the Guernsey Cheshire Home, £1,148.35.

(2) The maximum weekly rates of respite care benefit shall be -

(a) for persons receiving respite care in a residential home -

(i) £978.53, or

(ii) where also receiving EMI care, £1,173.97, and

(b) for persons receiving respite care in a nursing home or the Guernsey Cheshire Home, £1,490.37.

Co-payment by way of contribution.

2. The weekly co-payment which a claimant shall make by way of contribution towards or for the cost of that claimant's care -

(a) as a condition of the right to care benefit, and

(b) which shall be taken into account for the purposes of determining the rate of care benefit,

shall be £342.02.

Interpretation.

3. In this Ordinance, unless the context requires otherwise -

"EMI care" means care which, in the opinion of the Administrator, is necessary to meet the needs of a person who is assessed by the Panel as having the characteristics of an elderly and mentally infirm person, and

"nursing home" and "residential home" have the meanings given by section 18(1) of the Nursing Homes and Residential Homes (Guernsey) Law, 1976[c].

Repeal.

4. The Long-term Care Insurance (Guernsey) (Rates) Ordinance, 2023[d] is repealed.

Citation.

5. This Ordinance may be cited as the Long-term Care Insurance (Guernsey) (Rates) Ordinance, 2024.

Extent.

6. This Ordinance shall have effect in the Islands of Guernsey, Alderney, Herm and Jethou.

Commencement.

7. This Ordinance shall come into force on the 6^th January, 2025.

[a] Article IV of Billet d'État No. XVIII of 2024.

[b] Order in Council No. XXIII of 2002. This enactment has been amended.

[c] Ordres en Conseil Vol. XXVI, p. 71. This enactment has been amended.

[d] Ordinance No. XXXVIII of 2023.