Transfer of title deeds

cavework

There is another option , you could move in with them and look after them?
If they then required Nursing home care in the future , as long as you are over sixty you cannot be forced to sell.
As for this?
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Other people in the same home and receiving the same level of care paid nothing at all. Some of them may have had little or no savings through no fault of their own but I doubt that was the case for all of them.

They do pay , they pay everything that they receive from state pension and any related benefits, minus approx £22 a week living allowance, 50% of their occupational pension is disregarded if they have a spouse at home.
Also unlike self funders AA stops.

And then there are the people who have a surviving spouse still living in the paid for Marital Home..
They have every right to remain there and in fact although the person in the Nursing home is being subsidised it still works out cheaper than the Housing benefit that would have to be paid for a spouse still living in Social Housing .

clemmatis

pollypenny wrote: »

If she was receiving nursing care that should have been free - people have been wrongly charged for that aspect of their care.

I'm sure I've seem a link about have to claim back, but there are solicitors who can advice.

There are two separate types of payment towards nursing costs. My mother got the Welsh equivalent of this -- £100 a week from the Welsh Assembly. Anybody whose nursing home matron certifies a nursing need -- in my mother's case, specialist wound care -- will receive it.

http://www.nhs.uk/chq/Pages/what-is-nhs-funded-nursing-care.aspx

The second, difficult to get, is this -- the NHS pays all the nursing home fees, including board and accommodation

http://www.nhs.uk/chq/Pages/2392.aspx

In the first case, obviously, the patient/their relatives can choose any nursing home, also, they'll retain any disability benefits or can claim them, and of course if they're pensioners, can retain their state pension.

(I see I'm covering some of the same ground as cavework -- sorry, cavework; I type slowly and sometimes, very slowly.)

cavework

No problem Clemmatis..
I get very (not annoyed) just frustrated with the idea that people who are Funded by Social Services make no contribution what so ever.
Also that some people do not take into account why these people end up requiring 24/7 Nursing care or take into consideration that there may be a partner still living who does not require this type of care and still are capable of remaining in the marital home with a bit of help from the family and outside organisations..

pollypenny

I didn't realise that there were cases where the NHS paid for all care, including accommodation and food.

My father was in a residential home, rather than nursing, and was self-funding.