Changes to Financial Assessment Processes for Adult Care
Users of adult social care and support services undergo a financial assessment in order to determine how much, if any, they should contribute to the costs of their care. We are proposing some changes to a number of procedural arrangements for financial assessments, which will result in changes to client contributions for non-residential adult social care and support packages, including both managed services such as home care and non-managed services such as Direct Payments.
The two key proposals which we are keen to hear your views on are:
- a change in how we treat the enhanced rate daily living element of the Personal Independence Payment (PIP) in assessments; and
- a change in how we treat the Minimum Income Guarantee for adults who are part of a couple
You can read more about these proposals and our work to understand any potential impacts in our Equality Impact Assessment. We have also provided an online questionnaire to collect your views of how these proposals may impact service users and their families.
Timeline
- Opened
20 Feb 2020 at 07:00 - Closed
19 Mar 2020 at 23:59 -
Response Published
23 Apr 2020
Consultation Documents
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Equalities Impact Assessment
This document includes our assessment of the impact of these proposals, including comments and questions raised when we discussed them with key groups.
Details
Organisational Information |
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Contact Name | Katherine Sokol |
Job title | Finance Business Partner |
Contact Email | katherine.sokol@n-somerset.gov.uk |
Contact Telephone | 01934 634613 |
Project Information |
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Aim of this consultation | To improve our understanding of the impact of our proposals on changes to financial assessments for adults using social care services. |
Close Date | 19 Mar 2020 23:59 |
Consultation Topic |
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Context for this consultation | Users of adult social care and support services undergo a financial assessment in order to determine how much, if any, they should contribute to the costs of their care. We are proposing some changes to a number of procedural arrangements for financial assessments, which will result in changes to client contributions for non-residential adult social care and support packages, including both managed services such as home care and non-managed services such as Direct Payments. The two key proposals which we are keen to hear your views on are a change in how we treat the enhanced rate daily living element of the Personal Independence Payment (PIP) in assessments, and a change in how we treat the Minimum Income Guarantee for adults who are part of a couple You can read more about these proposals in the Equality Impact Assessment. |