When a young person is on benefits and is in receipt of an adult social care package they may have to make a contribution towards the cost of their package. But only when their benefits income exceeds certain allowances. This article gives current benefits amounts, thresholds, etc to help you understand when your young person will need to make the contribution.
Many people in receipt of an adult social care package who are on benefits will have to make a contribution towards their care package. However, you may be able to offset some or all of your disability related expenses against your contribution.
This document is an overview of what the Minimum Income Guarantee (MIG) is and the amount of the relevant allowances.
These are the notes I used to deliver the Bright Futures @home session on Adult Social Care and Direct Payments.
If you google ‘lodger agreement’ you will get plenty of examples. This one is from the Down’s Syndrome Association’s website. It is a simple agreement to lay out the terms for your young person making a contribution towards the household expenses.
This document has been taken from the Richmond Gov website and quite clearly lays out the conditions that have to be met for a young person to be eligible for adult social care services.
This document provides information to parents about the adult social care assessment under the Care Act. This is the assessment carried out when a young person is rising 18 and is deemed likely to have support needs under the Care Act.
These are notes for the basis of a discussion with parents around how their young person’s ability to make their own decisions can affect how a parent can support or manage the young person’s financial affairs.
These are notes from a parent group session led by Michelle Stone from Richmond Council’s Community Advice and Support Team about Carer’s Assessments. Anyone not already known to adult social care will pass through this team.
This document has been written on the back of a newsletter article from the Down’s Syndrome Association about whether parents can charge their young person rent and a contribution towards other household costs if they are living at home.
This is a link to page on the AfC local offer about Short Breaks Funding and from this page you can apply online for the funding. From this link you can also see more links to further short breaks schemes and funding.
Some years ago Contact had a document about direct payments (DP) to pay for social care for children. There doesn’t seem to be a current document but there is still plenty of information on the website. I still have a copy of the 2014 document and can email it to you on request. We must, however, be aware that some information may not be current.