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
Treatment of property
18. Treatment of property
Carmarthenshire has further discretion to disregard a main or only home and may do so in the following circumstances:
Where it is occupied by a carer who has given up his/her home to live with a service user for the main purpose of caring for that person
- and the carer has lived there continuously for a significant period prior to the person’s admission to the care home.
- And he/she does not own/have an interest in another property or has given up their tenancy if they lived in rented accommodation.
- The person must be registered with Council Tax as residing at this property.
- The disregard only applies for the period that the relative or close friend/companion continues to live at the property.
Where a relative as defined in the legislation or a close friend/companion has lived in the home of the person with care and support needs’ home all/for majority of their adult life and does not own any other property.
The disregard only applies for the period that the relative or close friend/companion continues to live at the property.
What constitutes a ‘close friend/companion’ and ‘all or major part of their adult life’ in this paragraph is at the sole discretion of Carmarthenshire County Council
