{"id":7292,"date":"2017-05-25T11:14:18","date_gmt":"2017-05-25T10:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/care-and-health\/?post_type=older-adults&#038;p=7292"},"modified":"2026-06-12T14:26:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T13:26:26","slug":"pay-a-social-care-bill","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/adult-social-care\/paying-for-care\/how-do-i-pay-for-my-care\/paying-an-invoice\/pay-a-social-care-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Pay a social care bill"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you are in receipt of a community care service, or are having a respite or short stay in a residential or nursing care home, you will usually receive an invoice every 4 weeks. You will need to pay the bill within 14 days of it being issued. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you are in residential or nursing care on a long term basis, you will receive a payment schedule with the outcome of your financial assessment. Payments are still due on a 4 x weekly basis.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The easiest way for you to pay is by Direct Debit and we\u2019ll send a Direct Debit mandate with the outcome of your financial assessment. This is a secure way to pay and you are protected by the Direct Debit guarantee. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Full details of how to pay are on the back of every bill we send you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you have your support as a direct&nbsp;payment paid into a private bank account or managed account, you will not be sent a bill. Instead, you will need to pay your assessed weekly contribution amount into your direct payment account to ensure you have enough money to pay for your services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are in receipt of a community care service, or are having a respite or short stay in a residential or nursing care home, you will usually receive an invoice every 4 weeks. You will need to pay the bill within 14 days of it being issued. If you are in residential or nursing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":748,"featured_media":0,"parent":9848,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-7292","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-16 12:46:48","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/adult-social-care\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/adult-social-care\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/adult-social-care\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/adult-social-care\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/748"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/adult-social-care\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7292"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/adult-social-care\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50608,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/adult-social-care\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7292\/revisions\/50608"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/adult-social-care\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/adult-social-care\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}