Care Home Appointeeship
We provide money management solutions for older people receiving residential care, ensuring a suitable appointee can be put in place to act in their best interests.
Our Commitment to Care
Our care home based appointeeship plan is for individuals who now reside in a care or nursing home and require an independent appointee to manage their welfare benefit entitlements and ensure their care and other bills are paid on time.
Money Carer has thousand of clients who are supported in a residential care setting and we work alongside the care home staff to support our mutual client with their money management needs. Get in touch with a member of our team to find out more.
A lot of our clients in residential care and nursing homes are older people who rely on us to ensure that regular services such as chiropodists and hairdressers are paid on time and to provide their Personal Expenditure Allowance (PEA) either to them directly or to the care home residents account.
Why do People Need Appointees?
There are a number of reasons as to why someone might require an appointee. More often than not, it is due to a physical or mental incapacity restricting someone’s ability to reasonably handle their finances. Examples of financial support could include:
Claiming benefits
Managing money
Paying bills
When a friend or relative is no longer able to handle their finances, it may be time to consider an appointeeship plan. If they are also being looked after in a care home, our care home appointeeship plan offers the ideal solution. The Department for Work and Pensions encourages individuals or organisations (such as the Money Carer Foundation) to act in the claimant’s best interests with legal authority, and help to manage their welfare benefit entitlements.
Who can Receive Appointeeship Plans?
A lot of our clients in residential care and nursing homes are older people who rely on us to ensure that regular services such as chiropodists and hairdressers are paid on time and to provide their Personal Expenditure Allowance (PEA) either to them directly or to the care home residents account. The appointee themselves must be aged 18 or over if acting as an individual on the claimant’s behalf. It is becoming increasingly popular, however, to enlist the services of an organisation such as the Money Carer Foundation as the legal appointee.
What is Included in the Care Home Appointeeship Plan?
Our platform offers a wide range of benefits to ensure that managing payments to claimants is made as simple and efficient as possible. The table below details a breakdown of the key service features that form our care home based DWP appointee plan.
Care Home Based Appointeeship Plan
£62.50/month
Our comprehensive appointeeship plan is our most popular appointee service. It provides a wide range of money management support for vulnerable people living in their own homes or in supported living accommodation.
FSCS-protected client account for benefits
Security bond protecting client funds
Separate rent account
Carer shopping account & cards
- Individual FSCS-protected client bank account for benefit payments
- Rent-only bank account to separate and manage rental payments
- Carer shopping account with prepaid carer cards for day-to-day purchases
- Personal budget account and spending card for the client
- Direct Payment bank account opened and managed at no extra cost
- All household bills and shared living costs paid as needed
- Funeral plan payment management
- Managing additional income streams (where the client has decision-specific capacity)
- Money Carer security bond in place to protect client funds*
- Automated benefit entitlement checks to ensure correct payments
- Motorbility vehicle management and DVLA linking at no cost**
- Debt repayments made on behalf of clients (note: debt management itself is FCA-regulated)***
- Family tree generation for future beneficiary planning
- Emergency payments via PayPoint vouchers
- Emergency payments via CashbyText
- Sweep-based protection and monitored accounts (via Monika platform)
- Support available via phone, email, video call and secure messaging
- Independent social worker visits arranged for complex cases
- Personalised spending budget plan created for each client
- Account and budget access via secure online portal and smartphone app
- Secure online access for named carers and social workers
- Read-only access for trusted family members (subject to agreement)
- Carers and clients can submit money requests securely online