New power of attorney guide

Moss5

I found a discrepancy on my registered LPA and hope they can fix it digitally. I shall report back, when I know the outcome. They have got the attorney's names correct on 3 of the 4 LPA's.

I am pleased to report that they (OPG) have digitally corrected the name of one attorney.
That saves me having to get donor/attorney/witness together again to re-submit.
I now have four LPA's registered and accessible on line at: -
 

https://www.gov.uk/use-lasting-power-of-attorney

https://use-lasting-power-of-attorney.service.gov.uk/login

eddiejimmy

How do I claim for MSE Power of Attorney £74 offer?
The link to Which still gives me a bill based on £98

Primrose

Moss5 said:

I found a discrepancy on my registered LPA and hope they can fix it digitally. I shall report back, when I know the outcome. They have got the attorney's names correct on 3 of the 4 LPA's.

I am pleased to report that they (OPG) have digitally corrected the name of one attorney.
That saves me having to get donor/attorney/witness together again to re-submit.
I now have four LPA's registered and accessible on line at: -
 

https://www.gov.uk/use-lasting-power-of-attorney

https://use-lasting-power-of-attorney.service.gov.uk/login

Well done. I hope this gives you real peace of mind for the future. 

MargieMargie

Can anyone tell me if they have been charged by their doctor to verify the POA form? My NHS GP is charging £250 and qualifying that it is private work. 

Malthusian

MargieMargie said:

Can anyone tell me if they have been charged by their doctor to verify the POA form? My NHS GP is charging £250 and qualifying that it is private work. 

By "verify" do you mean act as a certificate provider or witness a signature?

If so the obvious answer is to find someone else to do it.

peteduk

MargieMargie said:

Can anyone tell me if they have been charged by their doctor to verify the POA form? My NHS GP is charging £250 and qualifying that it is private work. 

No GP was involved in our LPAs - we only needed witnesses. Can't recall any reason to use a GP specifically.

Primrose

£250 is eye watering profiteering in my view for helping people who have no other suitable candidate to act as their certifying witness.
Surly one should be only too pleased to do this to help somebody get a valuable document prepared whixh may save them endless hassle further down the road. 

I.d be embarrassed to be found charging money for something like this.

silvercar

Primrose said:

£250 is eye watering profiteering in my view for helping people who have no other suitable candidate to act as their certifying witness.
Surly one should be only too pleased to do this to help somebody get a valuable document prepared whixh may save them endless hassle further down the road. 

I.d be embarrassed to be found charging money for something like this.

A £250 quote is a "please go away, we are far too busy on other stuff" quote. Rather than we want to do this work. IMHO.

Malthusian

Primrose said:

£250 is eye watering profiteering in my view for helping people who have no other suitable candidate to act as their certifying witness.

Anyone who is so isolated they can't find someone known to them to be the certificate provider is unlikely to be able to find attorneys in the first place.

Unless they're paying for professional attorneys, and in that case they may as well stump up £250 for the certificate provider; it will be a drop in the ocean compared to the cost of their solicitors. 

If there is a dispute over how the LPOA is used, the certificate provider could easily have angry people knocking at their door demanding to know why they signed off in it, mum/dad clearly didn't have all their marbles, you must have been in on it, etc etc. When they don't get what they want, they could plausibly threaten to report the GP for misconduct (even a baseless complaint will still be the kind of hassle and stress that ruins your whole year or longer). GPs don't need that.

By contrast if I act as certficate provider for a friend and then get aggro from relatives, I can tell them to go away without any serious worry about it affecting my career.

£250 is simultaneously cheap considering the potential hassle if there is trouble, while simultaneously likely to be a passive blocker (aka a go-away quote) as Silvercar says. 

peteduk

We have been considering whether or not we have to renew our wills because 1 witness is now unfortunately deceased, and the other is in poor health. (I understand that it can cause probate problems but am not sure what if this is the case - our daughter is executor and did not know the witnesses or their family).

It crossed my mind to ask if the death of witnesses also have an adverse effect on any aspect of the POA execution process? (To my mind it shouldn't because validation was made by the OPG at time of application).

I'd appreciate your advice, thank you,
Peter