Lead Member – Councillor Lee Chapman – Portfolio Holder for Health and Adult Social Care

Report of the Director of Adult Services   TO FOLLOW

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RESOLVED:

That a public consultation is carried out into the proposals set out below, following which a recommendation will be made to Cabinet:

a)    That the Personal Budgets Contribution Policy is updated for 2018/2019, reducing Shropshire Council’s existing levels of Minimum Income Guarantee for pension aged individuals to the governments’ statutory minimum of £189.00 per week for a single person and £144.30 per week for a member of a couple. 

b)    That, subject to a means tested assessment, the non-residential care contribution charges to this group of individuals be increased in line with the changes to the Minimum Income Guarantee.

The Portfolio Holder for Health and Adult Social Care presented a report from the Director of Adult Services on the proposed consultation on the Council’s reduction of its current level of Minimum Income Guarantee [MIG] for people of pensionable age to that of the statutory minimum.  He stressed that Adult Social Care was means tested and those most vulnerable in the community would not have to make a contribution to their care.

Responding to a Member’s comment that the consultation did not include an option for the status quo, the Portfolio Holder reiterated that those who did not have sufficient finances would not have to make a contribution.

RESOLVED:

That a public consultation is carried out into the proposals set out below, following which a recommendation will be made to Cabinet:

a)    That the Personal Budgets Contribution Policy is updated for 2018/2019, reducing Shropshire Council’s existing levels of Minimum Income Guarantee for pension aged individuals to the governments’ statutory minimum of £189.00 per week for a single person and £144.30 per week for a member of a couple. 

b)    That, subject to a means tested assessment, the non-residential care contribution charges to this group of individuals be increased in line with the changes to the Minimum Income Guarantee.