Care Home Fees Assessment

Personal care in a residential care home 24 7 support is provided by qualified care assistants who support you in washing dressing dining and socialising.

Care home fees assessment. If you re moving into a care home and have more than the amounts shown in the table below you ll usually have to pay all the care home fees. The fee you pay for a care home in scotland can include costs for. The care act sets the national rules for paying for care home fees. Download and complete the home care package calculation of your cost of care form.

Means tests for different types of care care home means test. Costs average around 600 a week for a care home place and over 800 a week for a place in a nursing home. Breaking down the cost of a care home in scotland. Lower threshold if your capital is below the lower threshold 14 250 the.

The payment of care home fees is a complex subject and depends on many things which are unique to you. Generally the council helps to pay for care costs if you have savings less than 23 250. It may be that you ll have to pay towards the cost of your care. In order to arrange social care you need to first get a care needs assessment.

Upper threshold limit if the financial assessment shows that your capital is above the upper threshold 23 250 you will be expected to pay all your own care home fees. The financial assessment is free and happens after a needs assessment or carer s assessment. Care at home arranged by your local council isn t usually free. The local authority will then carry out a financial assessment which is a means test based on national guidelines and calculate how much you have to pay towards your care home fees.

If you get a means tested income support payment from us we ll already have your income details. After you ve had the care needs assessment and you ve an agreed care and support plan there will be a financial assessment also known as a means test. If they decide you ve deliberately tried to avoid paying your fair share by giving away your property or reducing your assets this may affect your entitlement to support. Accommodation sometimes called the hotel cost this can apply to a residential care home or a nursing care home.

If you move into a care home you need to have an assessment of your care needs even if you ve had one while living at home as your circumstances have now changed. Care home fees will vary depending on the area that you live in the individual care home itself plus your own personal financial circumstances. For further details see section how to fund your care self funders v state funded. In england there are two capital threshold limits.

You don t need to give them to us again. This threshold includes the value of your home unless your partner or another dependant still lives there.