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Deferred Payment Agreements, 2022-23

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Deferred Payment Agreements, 2022-23


Summary

This publication contains data taken from the Deferred Payment Agreements (DPA) return to provide information regarding the number and associated £ value of Adult Social Care Deferred Payment Agreements in England for 2022-23.

This report contains aggregate information submitted by 151 of 152 Councils with Adult Social Services Responsibilities (CASSRs) in England for the period 1 April 2022 to 31 March 2023. The England-level statistics for 2022-23 have been estimated as one local authority was not able to submit data.


Key Facts

In 2022-23 the estimated England figures were:

New DPAs agreed

There were 2,370 new DPAs agreed during the year. The total value of the new DPAs agreed was £54.6 million.

DPAs recovered

£89.1 million was fully recovered from DPAs ending in 2022-23. This total value related to 2,450 DPAs.

DPAs ended and written off

There were 80 DPAs ending during 2022-23 that were partly or wholly written-off. The total value written-off for these DPAs was £1.1 million.

Outstanding DPAs

The total number of outstanding DPAs as at 31 March 2023 was 6,405, the total value of which was £274.3 million.

Types of DPAs

Loan style DPAs account for 14.9% of new DPAs by number, this increases to 15.7% for new DPAs by value.  The remainder were traditional DPAs where the LA will pay the care home directly and will defer part of the charge against the value of the property.




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