Care from Home Expenditure

1. What was the total income the local authority received from client contributions towards the cost of adult social care for each of the following years: 2022/23, 2023/24, 2024/25, 2025 -present? By client contributions, we mean any payments that recipients of care in their own home must pay the local authority towards the cost of providing that care.



2. For each of those same years, please provide the total expenditure made by the local authority on adult social care in relation to care people receive in their own home (home visits, etc)



3. Please provide information as to how the local authority determines if someone's contributions should increase.



4. If a decision is made that a client's contribution should increase, but the client does not contribute the higher rate of payments, does the local authority allow a client to run up arrears?



5. How many times during the years listed in Question 1 has the council started legal proceedings against a client for non-payment of their contributions?



6. If possible, please indicate if the local authority has a benchmark arrears figure at which it will pursue legal action, and provide that figure.



7. In how many cases in the years listed in Question 1 did the local authority secure a default judgement against a client who ran up arrears? 

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2. Lincolnshire County Council can't provide the income specifically for home care services as our system doesn't split out the income, it is collected for all community based support into one.

3-7. Due to social care invoices not being identified for a single service on our invoice system, this information cannot be extracted without a lot a manual intervention.

Invoices for service user contributions are invoices on a 4 weekly basis and can be identified as trans type I01 but this will include residential and non-residential.

There is no mechanism to separate the two.