"disposing of assets" (in order to reduce care home charges....)

Oldernotwiser

sagalout1954 wrote: »

Afraid I TOTALLY feel that there are those who DO work hard all their lives, pay their taxes and save what they can for their old age, and those who don't. Yes, I'm sure they would all have 'liked to' but for whatever reasons they didn't/haven't/couldn't. So they get to 'take out' what others have put in and I for one don't blame your FiL for feeling resentful.
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You've precious little opportunity of saving for a comfortable retirement if you work for RM, empty dustbins or work as a hospital porter! Yet these are often the people who've worked hardest all their lives and for little reward.

Why anyone who's had a well paid career should begrudge others receiving help when they need it, or thinks he should benefit too, despite having large sums of money in the bank, beats me. It's nothing but arrant selfishness!

margaretclare

Oldernotwiser wrote: »

You've precious little opportunity of saving for a comfortable retirement if you work for RM, empty dustbins or work as a hospital porter! Yet these are often the people who've worked hardest all their lives and for little reward.

Why anyone who's had a well paid career should begrudge others receiving help when they need it, or thinks he should benefit too, despite having large sums of money in the bank, beats me. It's nothing but arrant selfishness!

I agree.

I cannot get resentful about 'those who get it all but never saved for it'. There are too many other things in England today that I could resent, would prefer didn't happen. Although I grew up in a poor home, but one where they believed in saving and in insurance, I married a man who was the least prudent in the world, which was the reason why I was left in poverty in 1992. To do him justice, his health deteriorated from 1972 to his death 20 years later and he was not able to save at all. Nor could I, while we were still bringing up 2 daughters.

I've now gone back to the values of my grandparents.