This factsheet provides information on local council direct payments given to people who are assessed as having mental health problems or other disabilities and their carers.
This factsheet covers:
1. Who is eligible to receive direct payments
2. How direct payments work and the impact they have on benefits
3. What they can be spent on
4. What help there is help using them
5, The responsibilities of using them
IMPORTANT NOTICE: Please note that individual fact sheets are available free of charge to users of mental health services and their carers, but are chargeable to organisations at the rates shown per copy. Photocopying of individual fact sheets by organisations is strictly prohibited.
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