Draft Charging Policy for Social Care Services
In this section
- Managing property and finances
- Advocacy
- Deferred payments
- Invoicing for charges
- Non-payment of charges and debt
- Deprivation of Assets
- Additional costs (AC) for permanent / temporary admissions to a care home
- Additional costs (AC) for respite/short-term admissions to a care home
- Application of the rules to individual cases
- Reviews and methods of appeal
- Appendix 1 - Variations/adjustments to charges for financially assessed services
- Appendix 2 - Operational rules for commencement and termination of packages of care and support
Minimum Income Amount (MIA)
14. Minimum Income Amount (MIA)
Carmarthenshire will apply the Minimum Income Amount at levels set by Welsh Government each year for all placements in to a care home.
Carmarthenshire will pay the MIA to residents residing in care homes on a temporary or permanent basis, if this is indicated on the contract for the care home placement or is requested to do so by care management staff or an appropriate person.
The MIA will be recouped from the resident from their own income (e.g. DWP benefits); it is not for Carmarthenshire to provide MIA to them if they do not have any income.
Carmarthenshire will apply the Minimum Income Amount (referred to as the buffer) at levels set by Welsh Government each year to all service users assessed to receive Non-residential services.
In addition to the Minimum Income Amount set by Welsh Government for non-residential services only, and to avoid intrusive questions about a person with care and support need’s disability and disability expenditure, Carmarthenshire will also allow an additional allowance/disregard for disability expenditure. The additional amount will be applied as follows when the person with care and support needs receives one of the benefits below:
- An amount of 25% of the daytime component of Attendance Allowance (AA), Disability Living Allowance Care Component (DLA), Personal Independence Payment Daily Living (PIP) and benefit payments which relate to the person’s entitlement to the Severe Disablement Premium
Carmarthenshire will also allow as an expense, any expenditure which a person with care and support needs expends to purchase non-residential care directly from a registered care provider. Payments made through a direct payments scheme are excluded from this provision.
