Queensland Consolidated Acts

WORKERS' COMPENSATION AND REHABILITATION ACT 2003 - SECT 224

224 Liability for caring allowance

(1) This section applies if a worker is receiving weekly payments of compensation.

(2) A caring allowance may be paid if the insurer is satisfied that—

(a) the worker depends on day to day care for the fundamental activities of daily living; and

(b) the care is to be provided to the worker at the worker’s home on a voluntary basis by another person in relation to whom compensation is not payable.

(3) The insurer must ask that a registered occupational therapist assess the worker’s level of dependency and day to day care requirements resulting from the injury in the way prescribed under a regulation.

(4) The occupational therapist must give the insurer an assessment report stating—

(a) the matters the therapist took into account, and the weight the therapist gave to the matters, in deciding the worker’s level of dependency and day to day care requirements; and

(b) any other information prescribed under a regulation.

(5) In this section—

"home" , of the worker, means a private dwelling where the worker usually resides.