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 16. (1) Subject to section 18, rehabilitation benefits shall pay for all reasonable and necessary expenses incurred by or on behalf of the insured person in undertaking activities and measures described in subsection (3) that are reasonable and necessary for the purpose of reducing or eliminating the effects of any disability resulting from the impairment or to facilitate the person’s reintegration into his or her family, the rest of society and the labour market.  O. Reg. 34/10, s. 16 (1). (2) Measures to reintegrate an insured person into the labour market are considered reasonable and necessary, taking into consideration the person’s personal and vocational characteristics, if they enable the person to, (a)  engage in employment or self-employment that is as similar as possible to the employment or self-employment in which he or she was engaged at the time of the accident; or (b)  lead as normal a work life as possible.  O. Reg. 34/10, s. 16 (2). (3) The activities and measures referred to in subsection (1) are, (a)  life skills training; (b)  family counselling; (c)  social rehabilitation counselling; (d)  financial counselling; (e)  employment counselling; (f)  vocational assessments; (g)  vocational or academic training; (h)  workplace modifications and workplace devices, including communications aids, to accommodate the needs of the insured person; (i)  home modifications and home devices, including communications aids, to accommodate the needs of the insured person, or the purchase of a new home if it is more reasonable to purchase a new home to accommodate the needs of the insured person than to renovate his or her existing home; (j)  vehicle modifications to accommodate the needs of the insured person, or the purchase of a new vehicle if it is more reasonable to purchase a new vehicle to accommodate the needs of the insured person than to modify an existing vehicle; (k)  transportation for the insured person to and from counselling and training sessions, including transportation for an aide or attendant; and (l)  other goods and services that the insurer agrees are essential for the rehabilitation of the insured person, and for which a benefit is not otherwise provided in this Regulation, except, (i)  services provided by a case manager; and (ii)  housekeeping and caregiver services. O. Reg. 34/10, s. 16 (3); O. Reg. 251/15, s. 6. (4) Despite subsection (1), the insurer is not liable to pay rehabilitation benefits, (a)  for expenses related to goods and services described in subsection (3) rendered to an insured person that exceed the maximum rate or amount of expenses established under the Guidelines, other than for expenses related to the services described in clause (3) (k); (b)  for expenses incurred to renovate the insured person’s home if the renovations are only for the purpose of giving the insured person access to areas of the home that are not needed for ordinary living; (c)  for the purchase of a new home in excess of the value of the renovations to the insured person’s existing home that would be required to accommodate the needs of the insured person; (d)  for expenses incurred to purchase or modify a vehicle to accommodate the needs of the insured person that are incurred within five years after the last expenses incurred for that purpose in respect of the same accident; (e)  for the purchase of a new vehicle in excess of the amount by which the cost of the new vehicle exceeds the trade-in value of the existing vehicle; (f)  for transportation expenses other than authorized transportation expenses.  O. Reg. 34/10, s. 16 (4); O. Reg. 14/13, s. 2.