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Visits to local authority office Q 124-127
NOTE CHANGE IN PROCEDURE FOR 1986
A. The following information is required from local authority OffiCeS when first
working in the area.
1. Gross and net rateable salues and descriptions of rateable units. Q124- 126
2. Datails on O.A.P. concessionarf bus fares Q127.
3. NOTE CHANGE FOR 1988: You no longer need to contact local authority offices
to collect rent etc for council tenents on 100% Housing Benefit.
Rateable mlues and description Q. 124-126
It is essential that rateable mlue at Q. 124 and Q. 125 relates to the whole of
the rateable unit covering the household. This maans that in a multi-occupied
property what is required is the reteable value for that part of the property
occupied by the household to be interviewed. If it is not possible to giw? the
individual rateable =lue please make a note stating what is covered by the
rateable value obtained e.g. whole house, four flats. We also need the total
number of rooms in rateable unit (see Qs. 13, 14 6 15).
Concesaionary bus travel provision for OAPS Q. 127
This information obtained from the Local Authority office should ba coded on all
schedules when the household contains men aged 65 or over and women aged 60 or
Owr.
The annual value of tokens or tickets is to be entered; this is the face value (eg.
210 per year) printed on tickets and tokens. If there is not a face value for
tokena the concession should he treated as ‘Any other type’ and specified in full.
We need to knaw also the amount charged for the pass or permit and the period
co-red by this charge.
These schemes are sometimes run by the local (private) bus company on behalf of the
Local Authority in which case information will be obtained from the bus company.
Where a Local Authority provides an alternati w tO Concessionan fares eg
TV/telephone/food muchera, record the travel concession and make notes regarding
the alternating.
Final check and special circumstances Q. 128
Check at top of page 64 should be completed and details of special circumstances
recorded.
Please remember to put notea about unusual/special cirmmstances (which could be
misinterpreted if your work is recalled on) e.g. Person ‘Y! was included in
household aa expected to be there for ‘X’ time but left unexpectedly, ~ Person *Y’
not included in household because he/she was expecting to learn by ‘X’ date kt
then did not do so and was there for all 14 days of record keeping.
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