Direct Payments
We offer wide-ranging and multicultural health care and support services for people in West Midlands and the surrounding areas.
Direct payments are cash payments made to individuals who have been assessed as needing services, in lieu of social service provisions.
Who can receive a direct payment?
Giving people choice and control over their own care
The duty to provide direct payments
You have a right to buy and manage your own care if you want.
SentriCare will offer you the option of Direct Payments and we will refer you to someone who can help you manage this process through our Direct Payments Support Scheme.
A Direct Payment is not a benefit and it will not affect any benefits you receive.
A Direct Payment is not deemed as income so this will not prevent you from claiming benefits.
To give more power to the people who use social care, the Government introduced a system called Direct Payments.
With Direct Payments, the Government pays you an agreed amount (less any amount you have to pay yourself).
Direct payments gives you the ability to choose and buy your own care.
You can hire the care service of your choice.
Direct payments work for you and not for the council.
Why would I want direct payments?
Direct payments allow people to take more of the decisions which affect their lives. They give you more flexibility and choice, by enabling people of all ages to purchase care for them selves that better suits their individual needs.
If you receive direct payments, you can decide how your needs will be met, by whom and at what time. You are in control. You may make arrangements directly; so that any staff you employ report directly to you. If you have a contract with an agency, the agency will be accountable to you, not the local council.
For example, some older people may not always find social services flexible enough to respond to their needs, or some may feel that services lack in continuity. You may find that the home help or carer arranged by the council cannot come at the time you want. With direct payments, you can arrange for someone to come whenever it suits you.
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