Charges for community care services
How your charges are worked out for services provided in your own home or at a day centre
This explains how we work out your charges for community care services. This should be read in conjunction with your statement of charges.
1. Your care package
2. Your income
3. Deductions
4. What you will have to pay
5. Further information
1. Your care package
The community care services you currently or will shortly begin to receive make up your care package. The weekly cost to the council is shown as the total cost of services you receive.
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Income is treated in the same way as for Income Support except that Attendance Allowance and Disability Living Allowance for care are treated as income. Income includes most social security benefits and pensions.
Any capital and savings you may have up to the value of £13,500 are ignored completely, as is the value of your home. For every £250 you have between £13,500 and £22,250, we will add £1 to your income.
Anyone with savings above £22,250 will have to pay the full cost of their care package, up to a maximum of £450 per week. The total income used to calculate your charge shows all the income we have taken into account.
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Your personal allowance is the same figure that the Department for Work and Pensions would use to work out Pension Credit or Income Support for a single person, excluding Severe Disability Premium. We then add 25% of this amount as a buffer to ensure that people on low incomes do not have to contribute.
Disability related expenditure ensures that your outgoings or spending related to your age and disabilities are taken into account. We disregard 70% of your disability benefit income to cover these costs. If you think your disability or age-related expenditure is above this level, you can claim for extra expenses. If your expenses change after you have been assessed, you should tell us as this may affect the amount you are required to pay.
Your housing costs include things like rent, council tax, mortgage payments and ground rent (after any rebates and relevant deductions have been taken off). Other allowances and deductions from your income are things we ignore completely.
This includes Attendance Allowance and Disability Living Allowance for night care, except where night care is provided as part of your care package. If you already pay someone else for your night care needs, above the level of the deduction for night care, this cost will be deducted from your income.
Disability Living Allowance Mobility Component, War Pensions and War Widow’s Pension and earnings are also ignored completely.
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To work out how much we think you can afford we take away your deductions from your income. You have to pay the difference between these two amounts unless you are liable for the full cost.
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5. Further Information
Contact us:
Finance Assessment Team
40 Cumberland Road
Wood Green
London N22 7SG
Tel 020 8489 0000
Fax 020 8489 3783
Email Finance.Assessment.Team@haringey.gov.uk
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Update MePage Last Updated: 29 August 2008
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- Health and social care > Social services
- Health and social care > Disabilities > Physical disability > Facilities grant
