Care Charging

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Dear Plymouth City Council,

Please answer the following questions, or as many as is possible within time & cost parameters starting at #1.
1. How do you calculate the level of contribution that adult social care recipients should make to their care packages?
2. What income are social care recipients allowed to retain, after their contribution to their care package has been deducted?
3. What do you allow as Disability Related Expenses? Please provide a copy of your guidance if this is easier.
4. Do you use pre-payment cards for care payments? If yes can people opt out of using these?
5. Are there any restrictions on what Personal Budgets and Direct Payments can be spent on? Please provide a copy of your guidance on this.
6. Please provide a copy of the guidance document that your authority uses to make decisions on Direct Payment packages.
7. Do you have a contingency policy for DP users. If yes please attach a copy.
8. If a PA is off work sick do you provide extra funding to cover their sick pay – as individual employers can no longer get statutory sick pay reimbursed?
9. "What percentage of Direct Payments rates, that are paid to adults who directly employ their own PAs, are allowed to be spent on the following additional expenses?"
• National insurance employer contributions
• Statutory paid holidays
• Payroll charges
• Independent living insurance
• Advertising
• National Minimum Wage increase from April 2016
• Redundancy payments
• Pensions
• Training
• Contingency funding

Yours faithfully,

Ian Burnip

FOI People, Plymouth City Council

Dear Ian

My Ref: 889035

Thank you for your request for information about care contributions. Your request was received on 31 January 2017 and is being dealt with under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

The Council will seek to provide the information you have requested within 20 working days, that is by 28 February 2017 and it will be provided by email or hard copy, depending how you made your request and how the information is held.

Information is usually provided free of charge but in some circumstances a fee may be payable and if that is the case I will inform you. A fees notice will be issued to you and you will be required to pay this before we proceed with your request.

Information about the Freedom of Information Act 2000 can be found on the Information Commissioners Office website: https://ico.org.uk/.

Plymouth City Council also has information available on our website: http://www.plymouth.gov.uk/home/council/...

If you cannot find the information you require please contact me using the contact details below.

Yours sincerely

Hayley Stevens
Information Access Officer
T +441752398169

E [email address]
www.plymouth.gov.uk

Hayley Stevens
Information Access Officer
Finance
Plymouth City Council
West Hoe Road
Plymouth
PL1 3BJ

T +441752398169
E [email address]
www.plymouth.gov.uk

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FOI People, Plymouth City Council

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Dear Ian

Please find attached the response to your Freedom of Information request.

Yours sincerely

Hayley Stevens
Information Access Officer
T +441752398169
E [email address]

www.plymouth.gov.uk

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