Common use of Funding Arrangements Clause in Contracts

Funding Arrangements. 2.1. If a Local Authority assesses that you are eligible for Local Authority Funding, the Local Authority is responsible for locating a placement suitable to meet your care needs and for funding that placement, subject to any contribution that the Local Authority calculates and requires that you contribute towards your care having regards to your personal finances. This is normally referred to as a ‘client contribution’ and may vary over time and eventually cease. 2.2. The Local Authority may determine that other care home establishments are suitable to meet your care requirements. If the alternate care home(s) the Local Authority identifies are of a lower cost to the rate charged by us, the Local Authority may refuse to fund all of our required rate. The Local Authority may also refuse to fund all of our required rate if you wish to select a better standard room in the care home than the standard of room for which the Local Authority is prepared to pay. 2.3. If the rate that the Local Authority agrees to pay for your placement is lower than our required rate, you should expect us to require a ‘Lifestyle Choice Top-Up’ fee to be paid by you or a third party (identified by you, but who is normally a family member) in order to address the shortfall between the rate to be paid by the Local Authority and our required rate for the room. This would be subject to a separate Lifestyle Choice Top-Up agreement. Termination by any such third party of any such ‘Lifestyle Choice Top-Up’ agreement or its breach will entitle us to serve on you written notice of termination (see clause 5.3.1). 2.4. There are very limited circumstances where a prospective resident offered Local Authority Funding can pay for their own Lifestyle Choice Top-Up, and it is therefore likely any Lifestyle Choice Top-Up agreement would be with a third party. 2.5. Although the Guidance to the Care Xxx 0000 states that a Local Authority ought itself collect client contributions and Lifestyle Choice Top-Up payments, some require us to collect such payments on their behalf.