Deliberate deprivation of Assets - Find a freedom of information request

Request

1. Following financial assessments for adult social care eligibility - on how many occasions did the council judge there had been a deliberate deprivation of assets by the person being assessed? Please provide your answer broken down by the following years.

2019/2020

2020/2021

2021/2022

2022/2023

2023/2024

The year should correspond with the date the financial assessment was made.

2. Over the past five years, in how many cases did the council successfully recover monies or capital having concluded there had been a deliberate deprivation of assets? Again, can you break this down by the following financial years:

2019/2020

2020/2021

2021/2022

2022/2023

2023/2024

The year should correspond with the date the monies or capital was successfully recovered.

3. For each of the last five years, what is the overall sum (£) in both monies and capital the council has recovered through identifying deliberately deprived assets? Again, can you break this down by the following financial years:

2019/2020

2020/2021

2201/2022

2022/2023

2023/2024

- For example, if the council had assessed an elderly person had transferred £10,000 to a family member before their financial assessment and that transaction had been judged as a deprivation of assets (and the family's appeal was not successful) - the amount you would enter for this individual would be £10,000. A common parlance way of wording this would be to say how much was "recovered" by the council in deprivation of assets cases, in total, by financial year.

Decision

I can confirm that the information requested is held by Lincolnshire County Council. I have detailed below the information that is being released to you.  

1. Please see below.

2019/2020 - 10
2020/2021 - 14
2021/2022 - 26
2022/2023 - 10
2023/2024 – 37

2. Please see below.

2019/2020 - 5
2020/2021 - 13
2021/2022 - 23
2022/2023 - 9
2023/2024 -25

3. Please see below.

2019/2020 – 262,000
2020/2021 – 157,000
2021/2022 – 857,000
2022/2023 – 326,000
2023/2024 – 950,000

Reference number
9994122
Date request received
3 July 2024
Date of decision
25 July 2024