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  1. Estimating the cost of a Social Tariff for energy use at home, October 2022.pdf

    energy use at home October 2022 Author: Vinal K Karania, Research Manager Page 2 of 7 Summary To help vulnerable households in the UK to afford to heat and power their homes, we propose ... propose that an ‘energy social tariff’ is introduced, set at half the price of the energy price cap, and targeted at households living in: - relative poverty; and/or - in receipt of one of the following

  2. FS39 LP Paying for care in a care home if you have a partner.pdf

    Page 1 of 20 Factsheet 39 Paying for care in a care home if you have a partner April 2026 About this factsheet This factsheet explains how being part of a couple affects your eligibility for local authority ... authority funding if you need to move into a care home. It also looks at how your entitlement to Pension Credit may be affected. The information in this factsheet focuses on the rules for local authority

  3. FS58 LP Paying for short-term and temporary care in a care home.pdf

    short-term and temporary care in a care home October 2025 About this factsheet This factsheet explains the financial assessment rules that cover short-term and temporary care homes placements. These placements ... such as respite care or trial periods. A distinction is made between ‘temporary’ (generally up to 52 weeks) and ‘short-term’ (up to eight weeks). Age UK factsheet 41, How to get care and support, has

  4. FS39 Paying for care in a care home if you have a partner.pdf

    Page 1 of 16 Factsheet 39 Paying for care in a care home if you have a partner April 2026 About this factsheet This factsheet explains how being part of a couple affects your eligibility for local authority ... authority funding if you need to move into a care home. It also looks at how your entitlement to Pension Credit may be affected. The information in this factsheet focuses on the rules for local authority

  5. FS29 LP Finding choosing and funding a care home.pdf

    funding a care home July 2025 About this factsheet This factsheet gives information about finding, choosing and funding a suitable care home including types of homes, how to identify the right home for you ... funding of care home placements. This includes information about the rules for local authority funding. There is also information about making private, selffunded arrangements with a care home. Age UK produces

  6. Cold at home polling briefing, Feb 2025.pdf

    1 Cold at home: How older people are managing during the first winter after Winter Fuel Payment reform February 2025 Overview Since the Government announced major changes to the Winter Fuel Payment ... We have repeatedly warned that at least 2.5 million older people would struggle without it and would find it very difficult to afford to stay adequately warm in their homes.1 The way that the policy has

  7. Cold at Home Energy and CoL Report.pdf

    Cold at home: How winter cost of living pressures continue to impact older people And what more needs to happen to support them February 2024 Contents Key findings 03 Introduction and policy recommendations ... older people struggling to stay warm at home? 13 What policy interventions do older people want to see? 14 What is needed from the next Government? 17 2 | Cold at home: How winter cost of living pressures

  8. Competition and Markets Authority: care homes for the elderly charging fees after death, January (PDF, 312 KB)

    1 Consultation Response Competition and Markets Authority – UK care home providers for the elderly – draft consumer law advice on the charging of fees after death January 2018. Ref. 0818 ... is consulting on draft advice for providers of care homes and nursing home services to the over 65s in the UK (referred to in this document as ‘care home providers’). This is primarily in relation to the

  9. Competition and Markets Authority market study of Care Homes Statement of Scope Consultation Response - January 2017 (PDF)

    1 Consultation Response Competition and Markets Authority market study of Care Homes Statement of Scope January 2017. Ref. 0117 All rights reserved. Third parties may only reproduce this ... London WC1H 9NA. 2 About this consultation The CMA is carrying out a market study into care homes for older people, to review how well the market works and if people are treated fairly. This consultation

  10. CRS_July17_CMA_Care_Homes_Market.pdf

    Consultation Response Competition and Markets Authority: Care Homes Market Study Update paper 17 July 2017 Ref No. 1617 All rights reserved. Third parties may only reproduce this paper ... Square, London WC1H 9NA. 2 About this consultation The CMA is carrying out a market study into care homes for older paper, to review how well the market works and if people are treated fairly. They have

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