Under 65's in Residential Care Homes - Find a freedom of information request

These questions all relate to persons under age 65 living a residential care home paid for all or in part by your council's social care budget

1. How many people in your Local Authority under 65 live in a residential care home?

2. How much disposable income/PEA do care home residents have available each week for their needs?

3. Calculation of income

a. How does your residential charging policy calculate income?

b. What is included in your income calculation?

c. What is excluded from your income?

d. Which (if any) parts of the income calculation are discretionary?

e. Which parts of the income calculation are mandatory?

f. Do you use the same calculation model for care home residents above the age of 65 versus those below that age?

g. If the model differs, what are those differences?

4. Discretionary Increases

a. Does the Local Authority exercise its discretion to allow individuals under 65 years in residential care homes more than this minimum amount?

b. If yes, what is the weekly amount available to them and (as in 3 above) how is it calculated?

5. Is there any difference in the amount people are left with each week if the Local Authority is acting as an Appointee?

1. 666.

2. Personal Expenditure Allowance is £24.90pw as per Care Act (£30.65 pw if have savings disregard)/ Disposable income allowance if on a Deferred Payment is £144 per week.

3.

a. The calculation of the service user contribution is in accordance with the legal framework set out in the Care Act 2014, below is the link to LCC Adult charging policy which is linked to this legislation:

Adult care charging policy (lincolnshire.gov.uk)

b. LCC include income as set out in Annex C of the Care Act Statutory Support Guidance – Benefits Section number 16/ Annuity & Pension Income - Link below Annex C:

Care and support statutory guidance - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

c. LCC exclude income as set out in Annex C of the Care Act Statutory Support Guidance Benefits Section – number 15 lists benefits to be disregarded/ Annuity & Pension Income also mentions some disregards/Other income – section number 29 lists income to be fully disregarded – Link Below to Annex C:

Care and support statutory guidance - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

d. As an authority we will apply discretion to increase Personal Expenditure Allowance (PEA) to cover essential expenditure where it would not be appropriate to leave someone with only the PEA.

e. LCC include income as set out as Mandatory in Annex C of the Care Act Statutory Support Guidance – Benefits Section number 16/ Annuity & Pension Income - Link below Annex C.

f. Yes.

g. N/A

4.

a. As an authority we will apply discretion to increase Personal Expenditure Allowance (PEA) to cover essential expenditure where it would not be appropriate to leave someone with only the PEA.

b. As per response in 3 above, we follow the Care Act Statutory Support Guidance.

5. No.