TSEM5852 - Trusts for particular purposes: Direct Payment trusts - background
»Ê¹ÚÌåÓýapp Department of Health provides for ‘direct paymentsâ€� in cash to be made to individuals as an alternative to a local council providing care services. »Ê¹ÚÌåÓýapp aim is to allow the individual to manage their own care services. »Ê¹ÚÌåÓýapp individual uses the money to pay for personal assistance and also for certain housing, employment, education and leisure activities.
Sometimes direct payments are made via a trust, often referred to as a ‘user-controlled trustâ€�. »Ê¹ÚÌåÓýapp trustees may employ personal assistants for the individual and manage all the financial matters associated with the direct payment.