Long Term Care Tax paid

​​​​Request 796832020

QUESTIONS RELATING TO LONG TERM CARE (LTC) 

1. For people who do not pay tax, do not own any property, and have no savings, if they need to be cared for in a Care Home, who pays this cost? 

2. For 2022,2023,2024, 2025, please confirm the amount of LTC Tax paid in each year. 

3. For 2022,2023,2024, 2025, please confirm the amount that LTC paid out each year. 

4. For 2022,2023,2024, 2025, please confirm the number of people receiving level 1,2,3, and 4 each year. 

5. Please confirm the number of people who work in the LTC team. 

6. Who is the head person in charge of the LTC team? 

7. What was the balance in the LTC fund as at 31st December 2025?

Response

1.

The Long-term Care Fund would pay.

2 and 3.

Here is a table of income and expenditure covering questions 2 & 3.

Please note that the figures for 2025 will be available and published by April 17th https://www.gov.je/Government/PlanningPerformance/BudgetAccounts/pages/statesofjerseyaccounts.aspx​. Therefore, Article 36 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 applies.

​4.

Below is a table of those in receipt of Long-Term Care and their care level for the years requested

​5.

There are currently 7 people working in the LTC Team

6.

David Auffret oversees the LTC team

7.

The figures for 2025 will be available and published by April 17th https://www.gov.je/Government/PlanningPerformance/BudgetAccounts/pages/statesofjerseyaccounts.aspx Therefore, Article 36 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 applies.

Article applied

Article 36 - Information intended for future publication

(1) Information is qualified exempt information if, at the time when the request for the

information is made, the information is being held by a public authority with a view to its

being published within 12 weeks of the date of the request.

(2) A scheduled public authority that refuses an application for information on this ground

must make reasonable efforts to inform the applicant –

(a) of the date when the information will be published;

(b) of the manner in which it will be published; and

(c) by whom it will be published.

(3) In this Article, “published” means published –

(a) by a public authority; or

(b) by any other person.

Public Interests Test

Article 36 is a qualified exemption, which means that a public interest test has to be undertaken to examine the circumstances of the case and decide whether, on balance, the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information.

Public interest considerations favouring disclosure

• disclosure of the information would support transparency and promote accountability to the general public.

Public interest considerations favouring withholding the information

• It is intended to publish the relevant figures for 2025 by April 17th on https://www.gov.je/Government/PlanningPerformance/BudgetAccounts/pages/statesofjerseyaccounts.aspx so within 12 weeks of the receipt of this request. It is reasonable for government to publish reports in an orderly manner, following completion of appropriate internal processes, and publishing in advance, and in such close proximity to the expected publication date, would potentially undermine the orderly publication and conduct of government work (when the public benefit of earlier publication under the Law would derive limited benefit).