[2016] NZSSAA 033 (28 April 2016) [pdf, 44 KB]
...gifting period lived in the same household as the person being means assessed and provided to the person being means assessed a high level of care that enabled the person being means assessed to remain in the community without receipt of home-based disability support services. [23] The appellant’s gifting may have met the criteria but for the fact that the gifting did not occur within the 12 months immediately preceding the date of the financial means assessment. We further note that...