Hi folks, can you help with your collective vast experience of the benefits system?
Have you ever known of someone continuing to get attendance allowance because they pay for themselves in residential BUT get a nursing need covered (lower/middle/higher)?
I ask because I have been informed that if someone does get a nursing band they lose their AA. How unfair?! (stamp, storm, rant, ). Effectively therefore if a person was self-funding and got £58.80 a week AA, an assessment which showed they had deteriorated enough to get lower band nursing would mean that they lost their extra cash.
I am hoping very much that this is not true.
Thanks,
Sally
Have you ever known of someone continuing to get attendance allowance because they pay for themselves in residential BUT get a nursing need covered (lower/middle/higher)?
I ask because I have been informed that if someone does get a nursing band they lose their AA. How unfair?! (stamp, storm, rant, ). Effectively therefore if a person was self-funding and got £58.80 a week AA, an assessment which showed they had deteriorated enough to get lower band nursing would mean that they lost their extra cash.
I am hoping very much that this is not true.
Thanks,
Sally