Personal Budgets
Your Personal Budget
Your Personal Budget is an amount of money
which is available to spend on your agreed support needs, to help
you live an independent and fulfilling life.
With a Personal Budget:
- you have control over how you spend your
money on your support
- you have the choice to decide and buy support
that best meets your needs
- you have as much or as little help as you
need to set up your personal budget or arrange support
Different ways of having a Personal Budget
There are different ways you can have your
Personal Budget. You can:
- manage your Personal Budget as a Direct
Payment
- manage part of your Personal Budget as a
Direct Payment and ask Bedford Borough Council (Adult and Community
Services) to manage the rest as you specify
- ask Bedford Borough Council (Adult and
Community Services) to manage your whole Personal Budget
What can your Personal Budget be used for?
Everyone is different and how you choose to
meet your outcomes will be individual to you. However:
The support, services or activities that you choose to spend
your Personal Budget on MUST:
- meet the social care outcomes agreed in your
support plan
- be affordable and sustainable
- be legal and a proper use of social care
funding
Examples of what a Personal Budget CANNOT be used for:
- any form of gambling
- to purchase food and drink (including
alcohol)
- funding support by a family member or partner
who resides in the same home (unless exceptional
circumstances)
- paying utility or household bills or
debts
- health services and NHS treatment,
prescriptions, non prescription medication or drugs, purchasing
nursing care or care which is provided by a registered nurse
Related information
Personalisation
Direct Payments
Self Directed
Support Explained
Support to stay at home