The Care and Support (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2015

Amendments to the Care and Support (Charging and Assessment of Resources) Regulations 2014

3.  The Care and Support (Charging and Assessment of Resources) Regulations 2014(1) are amended as follows—

(a) in regulation 6 (personal expenses allowance for residents or temporary residents provided with accommodation in a care home), for “£24.40” substitute “£24.90”;

(b) in regulation 7 (minimum income guaranteed amount for other adults and carers whose needs are being met otherwise than by the provision of accommodation in a care home)—

(i) in paragraph (1)(b), for “£82.95” substitute “£83.65”;

(ii) in paragraph (2)(a), for “£71.70” substitute “£72.40”;

(iii) in paragraphs (2)(b) and (3), for “£90.50” substitute “£91.40”;

(iv) in paragraph (2)(c), for “£185.45” substitute “£189.00”;

(v) in paragraph (4)(a), for “£71.05” substitute “£71.80”;

(vi) in paragraph (4)(b), for “£141.55” substitute “£144.30”;

(vii) in paragraph (5)(a), for “£39.85” substitute “£40.35”;

(viii) in paragraph (5)(b), for “£19.45” substitute “£19.70”;

(ix) in paragraph (6)(a), for “£28.35” substitute “£28.75”;

(x) in paragraph (6)(b), for “£13.95” substitute “£14.15”;

(xi) in paragraph (7), for “£42.75” substitute “£43.25”;

(c) in regulation 7, after paragraph (9) insert—

“(10) For the purposes of this regulation, the adult concerned is a single person if the adult neither has a partner nor is a lone parent.”;

(d) in paragraph 15 of Part 1 of Schedule 1 (sums to be disregarded in the calculation of income)—

(i) in sub-paragraph (2), for “paragraph 46” substitute “paragraph 45”;

(ii) in sub-paragraph (3)(e), for “resident” substitute “adult”;

(e) in paragraph 45 of Part 2 of Schedule 1—

(i) in sub-paragraph (a), for “the adult” substitute “a person” and for “the adult’s”, in each place where it occurs, substitute “the person’s”;

(ii) in sub-paragraph (b), for “the adult” substitute “the resident” and for “the adult’s” substitute “the resident’s”;

(f) in paragraph 46 of Part 2 of Schedule 1, for “15(2)” substitute “15”.

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S.I. 2014/2672.