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can we avoid care home charges
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But the profit IS yours, it is going to pay for you to be clothed, housed and fed, just as your money has done all your life. Why do people think this should suddenly be free of charge, just because you're old?
Because until comparitively(sp?) recently it has been and for some it still will be.
There's precious little any of us can do about it but we don't have to be happy that the goalposts have moved.Make £25 a day in April £0/£750 (March £584, February £602, January £883.66)
December £361.54, November £322.28, October £288.52, September £374.30, August £223.95, July £71.45, June £251.22, May£119.33, April £236.24, March £106.74, Feb £40.99, Jan £98.54) Total for 2017 - £2,495.100 -
When was it free? Only in hospital, afaik.(AKA HRH_MUngo)
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But the profit IS yours, it is going to pay for you to be clothed, housed and fed, just as your money has done all your life. Why do people think this should suddenly be free of charge, just because you're old?
Sorry, perhaps I should have said 'ours to do what we want with'
What this policy has done (as I mentioned much earlier in the thread) has firmly put middle England right back in their place. The rich will continue to be rich, the poor will continue to be poor but those that have worked hard to get a place on the property ladder and hoped to give their kids a leg up and enable them to be a bit more financially secure have been, as I said, put firmly back in their rightful place. (apologies for using the term 'back in their place' twice but I'm struggling to choose between 'back to 'go' without collecting £200' and analogies about 'up the property ladder and down the snake') :rotfl:Make £25 a day in April £0/£750 (March £584, February £602, January £883.66)
December £361.54, November £322.28, October £288.52, September £374.30, August £223.95, July £71.45, June £251.22, May£119.33, April £236.24, March £106.74, Feb £40.99, Jan £98.54) Total for 2017 - £2,495.100 -
seven-day-weekend wrote: »When was it free? Only in hospital, afaik.
It will be still funded for people that have no savings/property so that is free, isn't it?
*Genuinely confused*Make £25 a day in April £0/£750 (March £584, February £602, January £883.66)
December £361.54, November £322.28, October £288.52, September £374.30, August £223.95, July £71.45, June £251.22, May£119.33, April £236.24, March £106.74, Feb £40.99, Jan £98.54) Total for 2017 - £2,495.100 -
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Sorry, perhaps I should have said 'ours to do what we want with'
What this policy has done (as I mentioned much earlier in the thread) has firmly put middle England right back in their place. The rich will continue to be rich, the poor will continue to be poor but those that have worked hard to get a place on the property ladder and hoped to give their kids a leg up and enable them to be a bit more financially secure have been sent back, as I said, put firmly back in their rightful place. (apologies for using the term 'back in their place' twice but I'm struggling to choose between 'back to 'go' without collecting £200' and analogies about 'up the property ladder and down the snake') :rotfl:
I don't understand this logic at all!
The poor will be cared for free of charge.
Those in the middle will pay for their own care until their savings fall below the savings cap, and will then be cared for free. They can pass between 14k and 23k estates tax free to their children
The rich will pay for ALL their own care, and if they still have money left over after that, their estates will be taxed at 40% over the IHT threshold.
Seems to me that it is the rich who lose out most here and that over time the families of those in the middle will become better off.0 -
It will be still funded for people that have no savings/property so that is free, isn't it?
*Genuinely confused*
OK, when was it 'free' to those with savings/property? It has always been means-tested afaik.(AKA HRH_MUngo)
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Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is the Book of British Birds, and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology: Terry Eagleton0 -
seven-day-weekend wrote: »OK, when was it 'free' to those with savings/property? It has always been means-tested afaik.
If that's the case then I have got it very wrong but I thought that it was a fairly recent thing that the sale of property was enforced to pay for care home fees?Make £25 a day in April £0/£750 (March £584, February £602, January £883.66)
December £361.54, November £322.28, October £288.52, September £374.30, August £223.95, July £71.45, June £251.22, May£119.33, April £236.24, March £106.74, Feb £40.99, Jan £98.54) Total for 2017 - £2,495.100 -
Chemotherapy is provided to cancer patients. Does that mean I'm entitled to some? I'd hate to miss out on anything that someone else is getting for free........
It was fairly obvious that I was replying to a question but if it makes you feel better fill your boots.Make £25 a day in April £0/£750 (March £584, February £602, January £883.66)
December £361.54, November £322.28, October £288.52, September £374.30, August £223.95, July £71.45, June £251.22, May£119.33, April £236.24, March £106.74, Feb £40.99, Jan £98.54) Total for 2017 - £2,495.100 -
You do realise you may not even need full time care, don't you?
What if you'd spent all your money on ephemera before you hit 70 to avoid care home fees and then live till 90 in good health?
Sounds a lot like cutting off your nose to spite your face to me.0
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