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Under Article 40 of that Law, entitled ‘Care Allowance’: ‘1. If an individual as described in paragraphs 3 and 4 cares for a severely disabled person of more than 6 years of age who, following a detailed examination undertaken in accordance with Article 15(1), has been declared dependent on care, that individual may receive an allowance for that purpose. … 7. The amount of the monthly care allowance shall be equal to 111.32% of the minimum subsistence income for an adult … for the care of a severely disabled person and 148.42% of the minimum subsistence income for an adult … for the care of at least two severely disabled persons, unless this Law provides otherwise. 8. The amount of the monthly care allowance shall be equal to 98.33% of the minimum subsistence allowance for an adult … if the severely disabled person who is dependent on home care on a daily basis or attends an educational institution for more than 20 hours per week. The amount of the monthly care allowance shall be equal to 139.15% for the minimum subsistence allowance for an adult … if the individual cares for at least two severely disabled persons dependent on care and who receive home care on a daily basis or attend an educational establishment more than 20 hours per week. 9. The amount of the monthly care allowance shall be equal to 144.7% of the minimum subsistence income for an adult … if the individual cares for a severely disabled person dependent on care who receives home care or attends an educational institution more than 20 hours per week and, at the same time, provides care for another severely disabled person dependent on care who does not receive home care on a daily basis or receives a maximum of 20 hours per week, or who does not attend an educational institution or who does so for a maximum of 20 hours per week. 10. If the individual who provides the care mentioned in paragraphs 3 and 4 receives an old age pension, an early old age pension, an invalidity pension on account of an incapacity of more than 70% for the purpose of carrying out paid work, a military or police pension, the amount of the monthly care allowance shall equal 46.38% of the minimum subsistence income for an adult … and 61.22% of the minimum subsistence allowance for and adult … for care of at least two severely disabled persons, except where this Law provides otherwise. The reduction of the allowance provided for in paragraph 12 shall not apply. … 12. If the income of the severely disabled person is greater than 1.4 times the minimum subsistence income for an adult … the amount of the care allowance referred to in paragraphs 7 to 9 shall be reduced by the amount exceeding that income; if the severely physically disabled person is a dependent child, and if his income exceeds three times the minimum subsistence income for an adult … the care allowance shall be reduced by the difference between those amounts. … 15. The care allowance may also be paid if the individual who provides care for a severely disable person is in paid employment, if the monthly income from that employment is not more than double the minimum subsistence income for an adult … that employment cannot however be incompatible with the purpose and amount of the care for the severely disabled person. … 18. The amount of the care allowance shall be reduced pro rata for the days spent by the severely disabled person in an establishment dispensing in-patient medical care, if the length of the stay exceeds 30 days. The amount of the care allowance shall be reduced for days spent by the severely disabled person in an ‘open air school’, in a centre for social integration, or in a place of recreation. The amount of the care allowance shall not be reduced pursuant to the second sentence of this paragraph if the individual provides care for the severely disabled person during his stay at the ‘open air school’, the place for social integration or the place of recreation. Overpayments of the care allowance may be taken into account in the amount to be paid in the following calendar months. …’