Waltham Forest personal budget money management guidance
What you cannot spend your personal budget direct payment on
You can use your direct payment in flexible ways to get the outcomes agreed in your support plan. Your personal budget is for support to meet your assessed social care needs and direct payments cannot be used for the following: (Please note this list is not exhaustive)
- Services that should be funded by health
- Gambling
- Illegal activities
- Food, drink or tobacco
- Household bills
- A permanent place in a residential care or nursing home or for short stay residential placements for longer than 4 consecutive weeks in a year
- for services provided by the council or
- to pay close family relatives who live in the same household or spouses or partners irrespective of where they live (unless there are exceptional circumstances which must be agreed by us)
If you are buying personal care services from an agency the agency must be registered with the Care Quality Commission.
