After receiving an application, municipal and county (city) competent authorities shall process the application in accordance with the regulations prescribed in the annexed table. The only exception is when granting an assistive devices subsidy requires no assessment or when granting a subsidy requires only the certificate of diagnosis issued by a physician.Pursuant to the regulations prescribed in the annexed table, regardless of whether municipal and county (city) competent authorities process the application on their own or entrust it to other competent authorities for processing, the responsible competent authorities shall prepare an assessment report and send it to the municipal and county (city) competent authorities (governing the applicant’s registered household) within 9 working days after the day the application has been received.