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Help re Direct payments

tomwalker

I care for my wife who is disabled and we receive Direct Payments for her care package. Recently she's had some terrible bouts of wrenching vomiting and incontinence and we have spent some of this money on cleaning and supplies. We now realise this is strictly outside of the wording of the Direct Payments agreement.

Next week we have a review of UC...Will this be flagged ? Also can our UC and Lcwra be stopped becuase of this?

I plan to write to the Direct Payment people and say what happened but for now we are worried about next week.

Many Thanks Tom and Karolina

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Kimi87

Direct Payments have no effect on Universal Credit.

seanwhitehurst

Hello Tom and Karolina. I am very interested to read that you receive Direct Payments. My wife cares for me (I have MS) but the local authority won't allow me to have DP's. She has to be employed by a Care Agency who pay her - obviously they receive more money than the amount she is paid. We are in Shropshire. Any advice as to how we can change this so I can have DP's please? Regards Sean

tomwalker

https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/941234#Comment_941234

Hi Sean..The way we got it is to approach it by contacting and applying to the Council. They have a duty of care to you for care so we applied to Social Services for a care plan assessment and Direct payment...I think all councils have to respond. Hope tgat helps...don't be put off...contact Social Services and insist.. Duty if Care...Care package and Direct Payments.

tomwalker

https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/941234#Comment_941234

We get money to employ a carer 1 hour a day as respite for me..that's 540 a month...plus the carer gets allocated 2 weeks off for a carer 24 hours a day that's about 5k

Rosie_Scope

Hi @tomwalker, sorry to hear your wife has been struggling recently.

As Kimmy mentioned, this shouldn't affect your Universal Credit. If they ask, just explain what's happened and it should all be straight forward.

I hope your review goes through quickly and your wife is feeling as comfortable as possible.

blacklight

https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/941021#Comment_941021

Sorry to include myself in this.

But do you need to declare direct payments to Universal Credits under "money savings and investments" as I did this and they stopped my UC.

But why should I tell them about our child's direct payments as its not considered "our money" nor is it income, capital, a gift, a local welfare support payment or savings or investments?