Disability Care Load Assessment (Child) Determination 2020
17Carer of 2 disabled children
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17 Carer of 2 disabled children
(1) If a person is caring for 2 disabled children:
(a) 1 professional questionnaire must be completed for each child; and
(2) No more than 2 contributing ACL questionnaires and 2 contributing professional questionnaires can be used to contribute to a qualifying rating.
(3) For the purposes of paragraph 953(2)(e) of the Act, the person achieves a qualifying rating of intense if:
(a) the total score from combining the contributing ACL questionnaires is 85 or more; and
(b) the contributing professional questionnaire for each child has a score of greater than 0.
(4) For subsection (3), an ACL questionnaire is a contributing ACL questionnaire only if the total score for that ACL questionnaire is 20 or more.