Reclaim Care Home Costs for Free- New MSE guide

Doc_N

margf wrote: »

Hi

Just like to say a huge thanks to all the posters for all the information posted here and report a successful retrospective claim, it certainly was hard work and I did it without using a solicitor, as a matter of principle I was determined to see it through.

I have now been asked to supply invoices/bank statements for the claim period 2004/5, fortunately I have them!

Has anyone had any experience or information on claiming the interest? I understand this should also be paid to us but unsure of which method would be the best.

Marg

That's really excellent news, and great to hear - well done! It must have involved a huge amount of work, but obviously it paid off.

Any advice you can give on the way you achieved your success would, I'm sure be appreciated.

slimalred

My mother-in-law died this week.The death certificate gave the cause as Lewy Body dementia.She has been in care for about 2 years and has paid for all her care home costs out of her her life savings.At her assessment we were told that she had dementia but it could not be assertained which type of dementia she had.She was therefore asked to be self-funding.Is it possible to revisit this and to try to reclaim the care home costs ?

John_Pierpoint

Originally Posted by margf
Hi

Just like to say a huge thanks to all the posters for all the information posted here and report a successful retrospective claim, it certainly was hard work and I did it without using a solicitor, as a matter of principle I was determined to see it through.

I have now been asked to supply invoices/bank statements for the claim period 2004/5, fortunately I have them!

Has anyone had any experience or information on claiming the interest? I understand this should also be paid to us but unsure of which method would be the best.

Marg


I have no idea but it obviously must be something between O.5% and 8% given that it dates back quite a few years.
https://www.gov.uk/late-commercial-payments-interest-debt-recovery/charging-interest-commercial-debt

I once spent the best part of 5 years haggling over a compulsory purchase type claim against the local authority and for that there was a statutory simple interest rate;. bear in mind that interest is taxable in most circumstances
The jobsworths on my local were pretty incompetent.
The NHS might be similar.

If you get no luck here, try a semi professional site like accountingweb.

pikie

I have a friend whos mother has been in a home for a number of years they sold her house to fund her care but have since been told they may have been able to claim back some of the payments is it to late or can they make a claim in retrospect?

Jaynec08

Hi,

We filled in the paperwork and sent it off to our local PCT (Trafford) before the end of Sept 12.

We have heard nothing. We have rang 3 times to be told they have lots of claims to process and we are on the list and have to just wait.

We have been waiting a year and a half already.

Can anyone advise if there is anything else we can do?

Thanks

Doc_N

Jaynec08 wrote: »

Hi,

We filled in the paperwork and sent it off to our local PCT (Trafford) before the end of Sept 12.

We have heard nothing. We have rang 3 times to be told they have lots of claims to process and we are on the list and have to just wait.

We have been waiting a year and a half already.

Can anyone advise if there is anything else we can do?

Thanks

Complain to your MP - it's likely to cause your application to jump the queue. Unfair, but that's the way it is.

Jaynec08

Brilliant will do thanks for your help

Doc_N

Jaynec08 wrote: »

Brilliant will do thanks for your help

Let us know how you get on.

MM80

Hi everybody,

Going through the process like everyone else via a no-win no fee solicitor.
They have advised that interest would be payable at either 8% or RPI.
According to my calculations this is a massive difference - and does anyone have an idea what is actually applied.
Please someone correct if I'm wrong but I believe the 8% interest should be worked out like example below ( 2 months of £5000 payment example ):

For FEB 2010 payment of £5000.00
For MARCH 2010 payment of £5000.00

Firstly we work out 8% interest on one months payment of £5000.00
by working out 8% = £400.00 due for a whole year on £5000.00
so one months interest is £400 divided by 12 months = £33.33

At End of March / Beginning of April 2014:
Feb's 2010 interest is 49 months ( 49 x £33.33 = £1633.17)
March's 2010 interest due is 48 months ( 48 months x £33.33 = £1599.84 )

Hope this makes sense and someone can confirm it is worked out in this fashion...?

margf

Hi


I am still waiting for confirmation on the payment and interest following a successful claim, I am still unsure on how the interest is calculated but I have found this information.


http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20130107105354/http://www.dh.gov.uk/prod_consum_dh/groups/dh_digitalassets/@dh/@en/@ps/@pub/@ppg/documents/digitalasset/dh_073093.pdf