Care and Health Law Topics

My Mother in Law had a financial assessment for carers with the LA and pays towards them -and in now on Direct Payment. She now has Alzheimers and is entitled to exemption from council tax. Does this reduction in expenditure get kept in full, or does this just increase her contribution by the same amount, or is there a taper?

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I am not an expert on the way reliefs work but I think that you are correct in your suspicion that it does social services good rather than your mother in law: ie that the more remission or exemption anyone in receipt of social care gets, the more it means that they are able to […]

My Mother in Law had a financial assessment for carers with the LA and pays towards them -and in now on Direct Payment. She now has Alzheimers and is entitled to exemption from council tax. Does this reduction in expenditure get kept in full, or does this just increase her contribution by the same amount, or is there a taper? Read More »

Disabled Facilities Grants and the Better Care Fund

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Introduction One can get a grant from one’s council if one is disabled and need to make changes to one’s home. For example if one: One might need to: To get a grant, you or someone else living in the house must: An applicant who is below the age of 18 does not qualify for

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