Brokerage
Brokerage is a service unique to HAD, provided by an independent support worker(s) to provide a more intensive, personal, ongoing level of support, assisting people in managing and maintaining their direct payment or personal/individual budget.
This support is designed to enable more people to access the scheme, if their impairments prevent them from coordinating certain elements or all aspects of managing a direct payment or personal/individual budget.
There are a number of ways which a support broker can assist you. A couple of examples of how we can help you are listed below:
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Dealing with and paying your invoices.
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Keeping and managing financial records and paperwork and presenting these records to the Council on request.
If you’ve had problems opening a new bank account or would prefer HAD to take over more of the responsibility of managing your care package, we have a separate dedicated client account whereby the payments from your local Council can be paid directly to us. As your allocated support broker we would then pay the relevant Personal Assistant / Agency / Day Centre etc directly.
Costs
The cost of the Brokerage service is £360 a year, inclusive of VAT.