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
Night-time services (Non-residential)
15. Night-time services (Non-residential)
Carmarthenshire will charge for assessed services included in the care and support plan which are provided during the night.
Persons that normally reside is settings which provide care and/or support 24/7, such as Supported Accommodation and Shared Lives will have all their Attendance Allowance (AA), or Disability Living Allowance care component (DLA), or Personal Independence Payment Daily Living (PIP), including the night-time element of these care related benefits included in their financial assessment.
Normally, the difference between AA higher rate and lower rate and the difference between DLA care component higher rate and middle rate and the difference between PIP daily living enhanced and daily living basic is treated as the element paid for night-time care.
