Care Home, Financial Assessment and reasonability?

elsien

The personal allowance people in care homes have to be left with is £30 a week.

6022tivo

6022tivo said:

Keep_pedalling said:

This is a difficult one, although it is her house she is not going to benefit from any work carried out on it so it could be argued that it is not in her best interest for her attorney to spend any of her savings on it.

Looking forwards, what happens to the house on your mother’s passing? If your brother is going to left the house or given a life time interest in it? if he has how will ongoing maintenance be financed?

Yes. Many thanks for saying it's tricky. 

I agree she will not benefit from the work carried out on the house. 
But as per the terms of her house insurance, it's technically invalid as the house is not in a fit state of repair. 

A property in a good state of repair is one without structural problems. Your property is not considered to be in a good state of repair if it has dry rot, rot or infestation requiring timber or window replacement, damp, roof or chimney stack damage, faulty wiring or incomplete construction.

As POA for her affairs I feel we are neglecting her home. 

The house will pass to myself and my brother. He will continue to live there and my share will have to be brought out by him, or some sort of partial ownership of some sort (Not really looked into it). 

I'm going to ask this in another forum. Maybe more a potential legal issue.