Regarding nursing home and personal cash.

Lil_frazzle

I went to pick up my deceased uncles items from nursing home today and on the way out they said “wait he had money, come to the office and we will give it to you.”
Went to the office and the lady there said she had to give the cash to the trust and not to me. All sounded a bit odd. It wasn’t much money probably under £100. Just wanted to check this was correct.

Yorkshireman99

Lil_frazzle wrote: »

I went to pick up my deceased uncles items from nursing home today and on the way out they said “wait he had money, come to the office and we will give it to you.”
Went to the office and the lady there said she had to give the cash to the trust and not to me. All sounded a bit odd. It wasn’t much money probably under £100. Just wanted to check this was correct.

Was there a will? Who,is the executor?

Lil_frazzle

No there is no will. His estate is going to probate. I just thought it was odd I could take his tv etc with me but not his money.

Yorkshireman99

Lil_frazzle wrote: »

No there is no will. His estate is going to probate. I just thought it was odd I could take his tv etc with me but not his money.

Who is applying for letters of administration? They might be considered a legitimate person to have care of the money. Has his bank neen informed?

Margot123

Does the nursing home know you? Did you attend to your Uncle's affairs while he was there?

If not, then the staff were quite right to not pay you the cash. They have to ensure it is being paid to the correct person.
With regard to the belongings, they will need a quick turnaround on the room. If there are belongings in there, they can't allot the room to someone else. They will take the risk of a later claim for those as the room 'rental' will far outweigh the value of the belongings.

pollypenny

We were not allowed to take any of my father's possessions from the residential home until probate was complete.

Seemed rather petty, as there was a TV, radio and CD, some pictures and his clothes. Probably worth no more than £300 in all.

Larac

When my Mum died in November - we had three days from death to clear her room of its all contents in the CH - this was part of the contract. Normally CH have a list of people waiting to come in and the rooms get filled very quickly. I was given the money kept in the safe, which belonged to her and they returned the overpayment of fees - within 3 days and made payable to me (rather than the estate). I thought they were pretty efficient tbh and gave us a reasonable fund to deal with the expenses following her death as getting cheques made payable to the 'estate' can be problematical

troubleinparadise

pollypenny wrote: »

We were not allowed to take any of my father's possessions from the residential home until probate was complete.

Seemed rather petty, as there was a TV, radio and CD, some pictures and his clothes. Probably worth no more than £300 in all.

Blimey - given that Probate can on occasion take months, that seems a heavy handed approach to some small-value items, and drags out the closure aspect even further!

pollypenny

troubleinparadise wrote: »

Blimey - given that Probate can on occasion take months, that seems a heavy handed approach to some small-value items, and drags out the closure aspect even further!

Exactly!

Malthusian

pollypenny wrote: »

We were not allowed to take any of my father's possessions from the residential home until probate was complete.

Seemed rather petty, as there was a TV, radio and CD, some pictures and his clothes. Probably worth no more than £300 in all.

So definitely not worth the care home having to deal with complaints when one child takes all the property and their sibling complains they had no right to do so. We've seen enough complaints along those lines on this board to know it's a distinct possibility.

I'm assuming they had the above items in a box in storage - if they left them in the room which meant they couldn't rent it out again until probate was completed, that is a bit mad.

pollypenny

Malthusian wrote: »

So definitely not worth the care home having to deal with complaints when one child takes all the property and their sibling complains they had no right to do so. We've seen enough complaints along those lines on this board to know it's a distinct possibility.

I'm assuming they had the above items in a box in storage - if they left them in the room which meant they couldn't rent it out again until probate was completed, that is a bit mad.

Yes, in storage. I understood their reasons, but it was somewhat pedantic, especially as I was their contact person and paid the bills.