Direct Payments

Direct Payments are means-tested payments made to service users in lieu of community care services they have been assessed as needing, and are intended to give users greater choice in their care. The money received should be enough to meet a person's assessed care needs. Direct Payments have been available since 1997 and are made to a wide variety of people, including carers, adult service users and people with short-term needs. Direct Payments are not the only way a person can have control over their care service funding. Someone else can hold the money for them - a family member or other representative, a trust, an organisation, or a Care Manager.

More information about your local authority's Direct Payments provision:

Anglesey: https://perspectif.org.uk/service/search?type=40&la=1

Blaenau Gwent: https://perspectif.org.uk/service/search?type=40&la=2

Bridgend: https://perspectif.org.uk/service/search?type=40&la=3

Caerphilly: https://perspectif.org.uk/service/search?type=40&la=4

Cardiff: https://perspectif.org.uk/service/search?type=40&la=5

Carmarthenshire: https://perspectif.org.uk/service/search?type=40&la=6

Ceredigion: https://perspectif.org.uk/service/search?type=40&la=7

Conwy: https://perspectif.org.uk/service/search?type=40&la=8

Denbighshire: https://perspectif.org.uk/service/search?type=40&la=8

Flintshire: https://perspectif.org.uk/service/search?type=40&la=10

Gwynedd: https://perspectif.org.uk/service/search?type=40&la=11