Fees. localauthorities the cap for the care section of the fees. local authorities have been cashed strapped for many years and i believe do not have much money in their pot to put towards social care as they did ten years ago for that this is where money is urgently needed, for local authorities to be able to put that into social care. at the present you any get social care element if you have less than £23,250 and then that is on a sliding scale down to 13,000. that element, that sliding scale, is going to be altered with these plans for 100,000 when the local authority rate kicks in, down ...