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Guardian Angel - Yvonne Hossack - True Justice
True justice Yvonne Hossack, solicitor who works pro bono tirelessly to aid the sick, vulnerable, frail and elderly etc to the extent that councils hounded her for 'upsetting their apple cart' of care home closures and other detrimental actions against this group of people that seem to bear the brunt of any cuts and…
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My mums continuing care
My mother has had a stroke and is in hospital. She has had a continuing care assessment undertaken by a panel for continuing NHS funding. She did not pass the criteria and i intend to appeal. In the mean time the local Suffolk social services are asking me for her financial details and have sent me a form to fill in on my…
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Pension Credit Help
Was hoping someone could shed some light on this. My dad receives pension credit and he has been sent another form (a renewal? i am assuming his assessed income period has come to an end) asking for all his details etc. This is not a problem and he filled in the form and sent it. He now has received a letter asking him for…
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Outrage over new raid on your pensions
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/127143/Outrage-over-new-raid-on-your-pensions Did anybody read the Express today, re the government ripping off pensions again, is this just political trouble making or something that we should all be concerned about, any pension experts out there got the true facts about this?
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family trees and roots
I thought that I would start looking for my paternal roots as I have no knowledge whatsoever, having a father from Poland who fought in the Polish army from 1939 to 1947. He was exiled and couldn`t return home and never spoke about the dreadful times he had, fighting his way through Normandy up to Germany. What a long…
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"disposing of assets" (in order to reduce care home charges....)
Briefly, my in laws situation is that MIL is in full time residential care, and FIL is living at home with home carer visits. They are both self funding as their savings are beyond the Local Authority threshold. We were advised to divide their assets, before MIL went into the home, to protect FIL's share of their savings.…
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Life insurance or funeral plan?
Please forgive me if this is in the wrong section! What I would like to know is whether it is better to purchase a funeral plan for my mother or to try and get life insurance for her. My mother is presently in a nursing home as she has dementia, but is in good health apart from that. She has some life insurance but not…
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Manyof us elderly folk................
Many of us elderly folk, have entered the world of technology and now enjoy the internet, mobile phones etc. Some maybe, have entered it somewhat reluctantly, egged on by younger members of the family. I can't wait to tell younger members of my family of this mornings success in saving money, and thought I'd share it with…
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executeers of a will
My gran has recently died, in her will written in 2002, she has named 2 people to be executeers. Unfortunatly we have fallen out with one of the people chosen, who was a family friend. What do we do...can we proced with probate without her using just the 1 executeer? If so how do we do this? She is the type that will want…
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A good discount site for over 50's
Check out oscaruk.co.uk there's advice and details of lots of concessions for us seniors!
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Anyone inherited an intestate estate in Scotland?
Mother passed away recently, she was married to my father since 1949, no other marriages, father passed away 15 years ago, and I'm their only child (mother was an only child, too), and therefore I'm sole beneficiary. She passed without leaving a will, and as sole beneficiary I wish to gain executor dative status in order…
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A nice little earner?
Most of us are aware that probate can take a while, particularly if the diceased did not make a will. Earlier this month it was announced that interest of 2.5 points above base rate – 3% – will be charged on any inheritance tax (IHT) due that is not paid within six months of an individual’s death. At the same time, it was…
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Park homes is there a downside?
Hubby and i have a plan! kids are getting older and in this day and age unlikely to leave home before 30 :D so we've been thinking about us moving out instead of them, If they covered the cost of running the house when the time comes, we could raise enough to buy a park home by the time our youngest starts 6th form, (back…
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A letter of under of undertaking or
My mum is in a carehome. Her savings has gone done to £23000 now we need to have a letter of undertaking from a solicitor as her property is up for sale (no buyer yet)to pay for her fees in the home or enter into a deferred payment legal charge agreement on her property we are not sure which way to go. We are going to to…
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Probate form posted - what now.
My friend whose father died in June and had left no will has had to apply for probate. She filled in the forms yesterday to the best of her ability and posted them off. She found the help line very helpfull. She is now wondering what happens. She is aware that she will be interviewed but what will they ask? She had no…
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Care home & Capital Gains Tax on former residence
If someone goes into care for dementia is this considered a permanent move i.e. does this become their place of residence. If so does this mean that the house they owned becomes liable to CGT if it is sold as it is no longer their home?
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free for seniors book
Has anyone heard of this book or obtained it? Its called free for seniors and its about things that over 60's can get free often regardless of income or assets.
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Silverville TV Prog.
Don't know if anyone saw this programme but it was very interesting and showed what sort of places are available for retirement and onwards. Link to Open University and a booklet about the cost of growing old that might be useful. Just to say, the retirement village referred to is run by Extracare charitable trust and my…
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Funerals
Do you have to have a church funeral? If not, where are you buried? My parents never go to church, in fact no-one in my family ever goes to church. When my grandma died, my dad arranged a church funeral and at the beginning of the service the vicar asked him if it was his mum or dad he was burying. This was just horrible…
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Age-related advocacy services?
My grandparents are in their 80s - my grandmother has in the last 12 months had two life-threatening stays in hospital for ulcers etc, resulting in major surgeries and a diagnosis of untreatable cancer. At the same time we found that she'd been hiding/denying the fact that my grandfather was fast sinking into dementia. My…