22 April 2019 Halesworth & Southwold Community News


ARE you looking after someone else? Are you a family carer, paid carer, neighbour, friend, relative or just know someone who is? Could you benefit from information and support relating to any aspect of caring? If so, come along to our Carers’ Day.


This day is for you. Drop in for 10 minutes, a couple of hours or the whole day at The Cut, New Cut, Halesworth, IP19 8LW. Carers’ Day is being put on by Halesworth


Are you a Carer? Dementia


partnership


Carers’ Fund in with Halesworth


Volunteer Centre, with thanks to a grant from Suffolk County Council and Great Yarmouth and Waveney Clinical Commissioning Group. The


day will run from


10am to 6.30pm to allow for those that work to also pop in. Throughout the day there will be information sessions and a rolling programme of speakers on important topics including Advance Care Planning,


Benefits Advice, Legal Advice regarding Power of Attorney & Wills, Health and Wellbeing, Carer Support.


be stands of organisations and can


local a ‘Dementia services


There will that


offer information sessions running exercise, and


support. There will also be the


opportunity to become Friend’


with throughout


the day. You can join in or watch some of the taster activity Yoga,


sessions including singing


for


health, drumming, art therapy, pampering and complementary therapy. We are thinking of running the HOPPA as a shuttle bus during the day. Please could you let us know if you would be interested in using this service or if you are not able to easily access the bus we can organise a community car. All transport is free of charge, please contact Karen Kerridge at Halesworth Volunteer


Centre to arrange


on 01986 875600. Entry to the event is free and tea, coffee and cake will be provided during the day. We look forward to seeing you there.


Cutlers Hill Surgery PPG Annual General Meeting


Tel: 01986 872336


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THE Annual General Meeting of the Cutlers Hill Patient Participation Group will be held on Tuesday 16th April at 7pm in the Day Centre in Halesworth. This is an important time for the PPG – we face challenges at regional level as part of the new Norfolk and Waveney


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“Integrated Care System” and at the local level with Cutlers Hill being expected to work with other practices as part of South Waveney. This year all current members of the PPG will be up for re-election and we would very much welcome


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new members. In particular we would like patients from a younger age range so we can represent the views of a wider section of the community.


All


patients who are registered with the Cutlers Hill Surgery are eligible for election. Why not put yourself forward? You can ask someone to nominate you or you can nominate yourself. Nominations can be made at the AGM or in advance by e-mailing co.uk


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Financial Focus On….… What happens if I employ a carer?


THE number of elderly or infirm people who directly employ a care worker or personal assistant to attend to


their has been Although


day-to-day increasing


the


needs quite


dramatically over the past few years.


funding


for such carers or personal assistants appears to be split between


the being privately


funded or funded by the NHS England or local authorities,


relationship


between the service user and the care worker/assistant is predominantly


one of


employer and employee. This means that the employer must operate PAYE and NIC on their care worker’s wages, deal with auto-enrolment


for pensions


as well as operate Statutory Sick Pay and other statutory payments. Often the role of employer (the one giving the instructions – not necessarily the


one receiving known as care) “Care is


then taken by another family member or occasionally by a family friend. These schemes are


and


Support” (C&S) Employers. It is important to remember that the C&S Employment Schemes only apply to cases where the employment relationship is directly between the individual/family and the carer and not via a Care Agency who employ the carers and who then controls which carer goes to which patient and when and where. If you use a Care Agency to find carers for you, it is important to check whether the Care Agency will be employing them, whether you will be employing them direct (i.e.: you are a C&S Employer and the Agency has merely found them for you) or occasionally, if they are self- employed in their own right.


In an attempt to reduce the administrative


burden that


operating a PAYE scheme imposes, HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) tries to


operate a light touch


where C&S Employers are concerned.


Firstly, unless the


person undertaking the role of employer already operates a PAYE scheme (for example they


are in business for


themselves and employ staff) and has to file under the HMRC scheme called RTI (Real Time Information), a C&S Employer is required to file only quarterly PAYE Returns on paper (albeit


within 14


days of the end of the quarter). This recognises that the actual Employer is likely to either be the elderly or infirm individual themselves


or a family


member (possibly operating under a Power of Attorney) who is not professionally, or business trained. In allowing this relaxation of the RTI PAYE filing obligations, the need for expensive computer systems and payroll software can be avoided as well.


The


exemption from RTI filing can only be claimed if it is the employer who files the quarterly return and not some other person on the employer’s behalf. This means that if you hand full responsibility of the PAYE scheme to a payroll bureau you will not qualify. Further


relief available of is also


employment allowance. amount


with the £3,000 This


allowance works to reduce the


secondary


(Employers) National Insurance an


Contributions employer needs to pay


(meaning it is not a grant). To claim the £3,000 allowance, it is important that you file as a C&S Employer. A C&S Employer is specifically


defined as an individual who employs a person to provide domestic or personal services at, or from the


employer’s


home where the recipient of the services (who may either be the employer or a member of the employer’s family) has a physical or mental disability, is elderly or infirm. For C&S employees, there is also an exemption for board and lodging provided to “Home Care Workers” which otherwise could be construed as an accommodation benefit on which the employee would be taxed and the employer have


additional requirements.


For further information on any of the above points or to discuss your tax affairs generally,


please do not


hesitate to contact Robin Beadle at Ensors Chartered Accountants, Saxmundham on 01728-603005. This article seeks to address general business and financial issues and due care has been taken in its preparation. Ensors cannot accept responsibility for loss incurred by any person, company or entity as a result of acting, or failing to act, on any material in this publication.


Specialist advice


should always be sought in relation


to your particular circumstances. Est. 1970


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