5. Direct payments
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5. Direct payments
‘Direct payments’ allow a person who has been assessed as having eligible needs to receive cash to arrange and pay for services themselves. Therefore, direct payments can give you more control over the way your care needs are met. You can have a combination of some services provided directly by adult social care and others arranged by yourself with direct payments.
Who can have a direct payment? – Local authorities have a duty to offer direct payments to people who fall within the following rules. To get a direct payment, you must:
    ■be aged at least 16;
    ■be a disabled person, carer or someone with parental responsibility for a disabled child; and
    ■have been assessed as having eligible care and support needs or eligible carer needs and the authority is satisfied that giving you a direct payment is an appropriate way to meet these needs.
You may nominate a person to receive a direct payment on your behalf if the local authority is satisfied that you have capacity to make th
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