Care Costs Updates - June 2010
We would like you to read this paragraph after Page 16.
How Local Authorities organise and pay for care is changing. How will it work now?
Assuming that you are financially eligible, a Social Worker will assess your needs and calculate how much social care help this represents and give this care a monetary value.
You are then free to spend that money in your own way. We have clients who use it to pay part of the cost of having their live-in care assistant.
If you get regular payments from your Local Authority for your care, please remember that it does not take away their obligation to provide help for you if circumstances change.
For example, we have a client with a recurring infection. Every now and again, she is ill for two or three days and needs a lot more help from her care assistant, plus visits from the GP. Her care assistant makes a careful note of the extra work needed and uses that as evidence to the Local Authority of an increased, intermittent need.
Care Costs Updates - May 2010
We have had pointed out to us an inaccuracy on page 22.
Please read the paragraph on Disability Living Allowance as follows:
An allowance is still available for those under the age of 65 in the form of Disability Living Allowance (DLA). So long as you received DLA before the age of 65, it will continue after your 65th birthday. However, those receiving Local Authority support to pay for their care in a care home are not eligible for the care component of their DLA. They are still eligible for any mobility component. Those receiving Local Authority support at home remain eligible for both components.
If a person goes to hospital for a period of less than four weeks, the DLA is still payable. If the stay is longer than four weeks, payment is suspended after four weeks. On discharge from hospital, the suspension is lifted, but it may take two to three weeks for this to be put into effect. It is backdated to the discharge date. The suspension does not apply if you are in a private hospital.
Care Costs Updates - April 2010
Page 2. The free personal care at home bill failed to get Royal Assent before the election was called and so was lost.
Page 22. Attendance allowance is raised from 47.10 to 47.80 and from 70.35 to 71.40, for those eligible to the day and night rate.
The standard minimum guarantee credit is increased from 130.00 a week if you are single to 132.60 and from 198.45 a week if you have a partner to 202.40.
Savings Credit. You may be entitled to savings credit if your income is up to 184.00 a week, if you are single, and 270.00 a week if you have a partner.
Page 23. Where the carer's allowance showed 53.10, the up-to-date rate is 53.90
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