Dad gone into hospital when does pension stop

mgardner

My 88 year old Dad has had a stroke and is in hospital, my 86 year old mom is still at home, can anyone advise what happen to Dads pension. Mom has been told this will
be taken off them in four weeks and is worried how she will pay the bills out of her own pension. No savings

EdInvestor

State pension won't be affected but other allowances might be, if they get them

http://www.helptheaged.org.uk/NR/rdonlyres/0C38632E-4449-487F-ACCD-8C6B7762D4F2/0/going_into_hospital_is.pdf

mgardner

Many thanks for this. It appears that his Pension sill not be stopped at all which will be a great relief to my mom.

margaretclare

This is one of those misconceptions that are still around. I believe there used to be some such arrangement years ago, but it hasn't applied for a long time now. After all, in hospital or not, the household bills still have to be paid! And most people find it costs money when someone is in hospital. I used to take my DH chopped up fruit from the supermarket because his mouth got so dry - what with travel and everything, it cost a fortune.

State retirement pension and any pension credit will not be affected. If he's on Attendance Allowance that gets stopped after 4 weeks because it's meant to pay for care, which, in hospital, he's getting.

HTH

blackadr_2

It used to say in the back of Pension Books that your pension stopped after 4 weeks in hospital. Years after they changed the rules, nobody thought to change the pension books. I don't know if it still says this, as I saw it in my mother's Pension Book, and she doesn't have one any more as it's paid into the bank.

dzug1

blackadr wrote: »

It used to say in the back of Pension Books that your pension stopped after 4 weeks in hospital. Years after they changed the rules, nobody thought to change the pension books. I don't know if it still says this, as I saw it in my mother's Pension Book, and she doesn't have one any more as it's paid into the bank.

Pension books went out something like 5 years ago - these days it's bank account, PO card account (a sort of electronic pension book) or giro.