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Social care - direct payments for adult without capacity Duty
- Description
- This section applies where—
(a) a personal budget for an adult specifies an amount which the local authority must pay towards the cost of meeting the needs to which the personal budget relates, and
(b) the adult lacks capacity to request the local authority to meet any of those needs by making payments to the adult, but
(c) an authorised person requests the local authority to meet some or all of those needs by making payments to the authorised person.
If conditions 1 to 5 of section 32 are met, the local authority must, subject to regulations under section 33, make the payments to which the request relates to the authorised person.
A payment under this section is referred to as a direct payment
- Modified
- 18 Mar 2024
- Status
- Live
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