Individualised Funding

Host agencies for I.F. (You can find others, but these seem to be the top two for our families.)

Manawanui Support Limited

Phone: 0508 462 427

Email: info@manawanui.org.nz

Website: www.manawanui.org.nz external URL

Florence Nightingale Agency

Phone: 0800 348 7600

Email: support@florence2care.co.nz

Website: www.florence2care.co.nz external URL

Access

Phone: 0800 284 663

info@access.org.nz

https://access.org.nz/

What does an I.F. host/agency do?

•  help you understand I.F.

•  helping you learn how to organise, set up, and manage your supports

•  administering payments for the support services

•  helping you manage your responsibilities – this includes reporting back to them on the

• support hours you have used, so that they can be paid for

•  advising you if something that you want to purchase meets the Purchasing Guidance.

Your I.F. host must also check that the service is working well and report back to Whaikaha about it.

I.F. is all about flexibility and support that works for you so when you talk to your Host organisation, make sure you talk to them about how they can support you. You are under no obligation to use them for all their services.

What/who is an Agent

The nominated person acting on behalf of a disabled person will be referred to as an Agent. There are responsibilities you have that the Host can't do for you, for example, with IRD, so please talk to your IF host about the responsibilities you hold as an agent under IF. Please note, as an agent, you cannot pay yourself. Manawanui offer a payroll service to take this stress away from you.

DID YOU KNOW? 

As the agent, you are entitled to receive a recognition payment for administration work that is done voluntarily on the disabled person’s behalf. Usually, but not always, by the full-time carer. The payment must be for reasonable expenditure incurred and be no more than $300 per year.

The requirement that the payment be made to cover &quote; reasonable expenditure & quote; is to ensure that it falls within the scope of the exemption in section CW 62B of the Income Tax Act 2007. Any questions about how or when to claim for this payment, please talk to your Agency/Host.