Personal budgets and direct payments

A personal budget is an allocation of money from Knowsley Council to meet your assessed social care and/or health needs.

If you are eligible for funding from social care and/or health, you may be entitled to a personal budget and a direct payment to yourself or a nominated person on your behalf.

You can use your personal budget to

• Continue to use services that you currently use or want to use and ask Knowsley Council to arrange them for you on your behalf (known as direct services).
• Take the money and arrange your own services (known as direct payments).
• Have a mixture of both.

The amount of money you are awarded is based on the 'eligible needs' you have at that time. Eligible needs are those which Knowsley Council has a duty to support you with.

If you would like a personal budget but do not want to manage the budget yourself, you can choose to have a managed account where a nominated person or organisation manages this for you.