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Over 50s MoneySaving
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Money management in old age
When the time comes that my wife & myself become too old or infirm to carry out the day-to-day financial activity of our lives, any suggestions on who or what could do this on our behalf?Our only family is too far away to help & our friends are of a similar age & state of health & we would not wish to burden them with the…
Does mum need insurance for her stairlift?
Mum is 81 and lives in her own home (a council house) and is virtually housebound now having had mini strokes and onset of dementia. She got a second hand stairlift for free not so long ago, and today she asked me to look for insurance cover for it. What triggered it was a leaflet that was left after she had a minor…
Latest Government giveaway
Just wondering how I can get some of this free money that the Government seems so keen to give away. I am 60, I retired on a personal pension (SIPP) at 55, I don't qualify for any benefits at all, mortgage free, don't eat out, no intention of moving house and the house I am in is already insulated up to and over the…
NHS vs Private hearing aids
For a few years my mother has been going deaf. She's been given an NHS hearing aid but although she says it sort of works she complains that the sound is "tinny". She also has trouble putting it in as due to a failed carpul tunnel operation the ends of her fingers are numb. I was wondering if it might be worth her trying a…
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