Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether money allocated to people under the Windrush Compensation Scheme is exempted from consideration in means testing for social care.

Where a local authority charges a person for their care and support, they may take most of the income and benefits people receive into account when determining how much they should pay. This is unless it is specifically required to be disregarded by The Care and Support (Charging and Assessment of Resources) Regulations 2014 or the associated statutory guidance. The Windrush Compensation Scheme is not currently disregarded, although we are keeping this under active review.