{"id":93424,"date":"2018-06-29T15:25:30","date_gmt":"2018-06-29T15:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=9ecc0aaa53f4cd048f1bc81f8dd67ac1"},"modified":"2018-06-29T15:25:30","modified_gmt":"2018-06-29T15:25:30","slug":"news-story-crime-news-changes-to-simplify-applications-and-billing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=93424","title":{"rendered":"News story: Crime news: changes to simplify applications and billing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>We have made changes to make it easier to apply and bill for criminal legal aid work to reduce the number of rejected applications.<\/p>\n<p>The improvements include the previously planned changes to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>CRM14 eForm applications<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>CRM4 grant letters<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 id=\"crm14-eform-changes\">CRM14 eForm changes<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li>\n<p>Help buttons and guidance notes added to help providers see the information required before financial assessments can be carried out.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>New fields to allow providers to explain client\u2019s circumstances in more detail, e.g. when the client\u2019s outgoings exceed their income.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Additional tick boxes added to help explain why a client may not be declaring any income e.g. \u201cliving with parents\u201d, \u201cliving on the streets\u201d and \u201csupported by friends\u201d<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3 id=\"crm4-grant-letter-changes\">CRM4 grant letter changes<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li>\n<p>Updated letter will show both the amounts applied for and the amounts granted. This will give the provider a full breakdown of the granted preparation and travel costs.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Decisions will be fully explained and if a reduced sum is being paid then reasons will be provided.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>A POCA tick box will be added for providers to indicate if their case relates to a Proceeds of Crime Act case to enable billing staff to identify such cases quickly and easily.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3 id=\"why-are-you-doing-this\">Why are you doing this?<\/h3>\n<p>We hope these changes will make it easier for providers to see the information we need to process your applications quickly and easily.<\/p>\n<p>This should reduce the number of rejected applications and save time and money for both providers and the Legal Aid Agency.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"further-information\">Further information<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/guidance\/legal-aid-crime-eform\">Legal aid: crime eForm<\/a> \u2013 to download \u2018Changes to CRM14 guidance\u2019<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Improvements went live on 29 June 2018 which included the way we work with CRM14 eForms and CRM4 grant letters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93424"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=93424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}