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Winter fuel payment when in care home.
Just wondered if someone of 97 is self funded in a care house would they still get the winter fuel payment?
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How to feel unwanted - age discrimination?
Well - it certainly made ME feel unwanted: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2050800/Over-60s-exempt-stamp-duty-free-occupied-homes.html Must admit my personal reaction to that was "So - is the message 'please hurry up and shuffle off this mortal coil - make way Granny (or - in my own personal case- 'O Childless One')?"…
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Saga magazine 3 year subscription just £7.95
A special deal for fellow old fogies. A three year subscription to the saga magazine for less than the cost of posting the mags to you. Just enter the code E0064. https://www.saga.co.uk/magazine-subscriptions/offer.asp
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Selling our old gold
Hi everyone, apparently scrap gold is a good price and I have several wedding rings etc, from family, sitting in a drawer, in our local shopping mall they were sitting there today giving out lots of cash for necklaces, bangles, etc, I asked how much a gram it was, about eleven to twelve pounds she said for wedding rings,…
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E-on £100 winter warmer, but.....
Hello, We found out that our suppliers E-on are paying over 65's a £100 winter bonus. Duly called but, they only recongise claims from those on pension credit. OH and myself are on Income Support. I've tasked himself with ringing DWP but anyone else come across this and have you found a solution please - thank you.
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My 89 year old mother and her Internet skills
I am about to help my Mother invest some money from the sale of her house. Have not yet decided whether to use an Independent Advisor or to just research everything myself. Now I know that there will be several potential investments that would be best opened using the Internet to get the best rates of return. My question…
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Deposit lump sum before 65, 200% paid out on death
I have just realised that my credit union offer a free life insurance type of cover on savings accounts. For any money saved and held in a credit union account before someone's 65th birthday, it is doubled upon death of the person and paid to their nominated beneficiary. So, put in £1,000 before your 65th birthday, and a…
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Unpaid Nursing Home fees after death - who is liable?
My DH is executor to the will of a lady who passed away at the end of February. She spent her last few years in a nursing home with dementia. She had little in the way of savings and therefore social services were contributing to her care, she was contributing her state pension and small private pension less the personal…
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Interest charges
I am trying to help my 60 year old mother settle the outstanding care home fees for my deceased grandmother. The outstanding amount via remittances advice from the council states the amount due/payable of £15,327.27. Last statement received Dec 2009. After contact via phone to establish suitable payment method a letter…
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So, are there any benefits to look forward to when I turn 50?
Only 4 months to go before I reach another milestone. I was wondering if there are there any monetary benefits when turning 50 besides cheaper motor insurance and claiming part of a private pension plan? ;)
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ELDC, Lincs. Free swims for over 60s
Just for October over 60's residents can swim free
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Can i cope with applying for probate on my own?
Thats basically it really.I've been reading about how slow solicitors are and i've been looking into doing this myself as the solicitor i rang wanted £600 to do the job:eek:. I'm the executor of my mums will.She passed away just before xmas:(.I lost my dad 7 years ago.Its pretty straight forward there won't be any…
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Collecting medication from surgery
I don't know if anyone can help with this. My husband has repeat prescriptions and each time he needs a new batch of medicaton he has to send a stamped addressed envelope to his doctor's surgery and they send the prescription back to him. He has to take this to the nearest pharmacist which is more than four miles away. A…
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please for advise on my mothers lasting power of attorney
hi..first post on here,i am going mad with worry,i hope to find someone either in same position and/or knows what i should do because i am at a loss of it all...my father died last november,he looked after my mum who is riddled with arthritus ,she is fully aware and all together in her mind,its just she cant do for…
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If father goes into care
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Retired and what to do all day
I am asking for a male friend who is stuck for ideas on what a man could do in retirement. There are no grandchildren or children or anything like that? Wanted to see what people do especially ideas for men.
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Silver Dreams Fund.
The BBC Radio 4 programme featured Peter Ainsworth ("Chair") and Angela Rippon (personality) for the The Big Lottery fund promoting "The Silver Dreams" sub fund. It has £110 million to give away over three years. To quote Angela "You could have another 30 years of active life when you retire - why waste it?"…
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Funding for WW2 veterans/widows/merchant seamen/ATs/WAAF to visit former battlefields
Ex POW urges comrades to claim £££££££s "If you or your loved ones fought anywhere in WW2 from Europe to the Mediterranean to the Far east. Ex POW Ted Cachart is calling on you! to join him for one last mission back to former battlefields and memorial sites. Grants of up to £5,500 to help fund the trips are only available…
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Family Tree Maker Software
Like everybody else I've just watched the Richard Madely Who Do You Think You Are? program last night and then heard him talking about it on radio2 this morning. I keep all my family history on my computer in a program called Family Tree Maker and I thought forum users might be interested to know that I have just found a…
