If you are paying your own residential care fees privately, or are paying for another person’s care, you may be entitled to claim tax allowances or rebate.

You may claim relief for nursing home fees expenditure under the general scheme for tax relief on medical expenses at your highest rate of tax (either 20% or 41%).

A long stay resident who pays tax under PAYE can apply to have the expenses allowed in their tax credit certificate.

We advise you to contact the Revenue Commissioners to check your entitlements prior to, or upon commencement of paying your fees, as the tax allowances can be applied to the current tax year.

For more information about your entitlements and how to apply, go to www.revenue.ie

The Carer’s Grant is an annual payment made to carers by the Department of Social Protection. Carers may use this grant to avail of respite care for the person to whom they are providing care in a Silver Stream Home.

In June of each year (usually on the first Thursday of the month), the Department of Social Protection pays the grant automatically to carers in receipt of Carer’s Allowance, Carer’s Benefit, Domiciliary Care Allowance or Prescribed Relative’s Allowance from the Department of Health.

If you would like to learn more about the respite grant, please contact the Department of Health as follows:

Department of Health & Social Protection
Respite Care Grant Section
PO Box 10085
Dublin 2
Tel: 01 673 22 22
Web: www.welfare.ie

There are two types of financial support available under this scheme – State Support and a Nursing Home Loan (Ancillary State Support).

There are two parts to the application process:

1. A care needs assessment
2. A financial assessment

For more information on the Fair Deal Scheme and to download an application form please follow the link:

https://www2.hse.ie/services/fair-deal-scheme/fair-deal-application-process.html

Your income and assets are assessed and your weekly contribution is worked out. The HSE will pay the rest of the weekly cost of your care, this is called State Support.

This is an optional extra feature of the Nursing Home Support Scheme for people who own property or land-based assets in Ireland. Instead of paying your full weekly contribution for your care from your own means, you can choose to apply for a Nursing Home Loan, to cover the portion of your contribution which is based on property or land assets. The HSE will then pay that portion of your cost of care on top of your State Support payment.

The loan is paid back to the State after the sale of all, or part, of the asset or upon your death, whichever occurs first. Repayment of the loan is made to the Revenue Commissioners. In certain cases, repayment of the loan can be deferred. This part of the scheme is designed to protect people from having to sell their home during their lifetime to pay for nursing home care.

For more information about the Nursing Home Loan and to download an application form please follow the link and complete Part 6 of the form.

https://www2.hse.ie/services/fair-deal-scheme/fair-deal-application-process.html

At Silver Stream you will have access to health, social and personal care programmes, as well as a range of ancillary and specialist services.

All additional fees and service charges will be discussed and agreed with you in advance. Where these fees are not covered by your entitlements, or included in your care fees, the fee will appear on your monthly invoice.

When possible, we endeavour to maintain a standard additional service fee to ensure that residents, or those contributing toward the cost of care, can budget expenditure rather that incur unexpected charges at the month end.

Our Finance Management Team continually monitor and review all additional and ancillary service fees to ensure that they remain appropriate. As follows is an overview of possible additional fees. If you have any queries or would like more information, please speak with the Director of Nursing.

• Chiropody
• Dental
• Ophthalmic
• Physiotherapy
• External Appointment Escort
• Speech & Language Therapy
• Audiology
• Dietician & Nutritionist
• Counselling
• GP or Doctor on Call
• Pharmacy & Medications
• Incontinence Wear

• Activities & Entertainment
• Group Outings
• Taxi & Transport
• External Escort
• Hair and Beauty
• Complementary Therapies
• Dry Cleaning & Laundry
• Post
• Telephone
• Internet Access
• Specialist TV Access

• Medical Equipment
• Protective Equipment
• Wheelchairs