Nursing home and finance

canarygirl76

I need some advice. My parents have joint accounts and house is in joint names. We have been told that my father needs palliative care in a nursing home. Is my mother ok to move some money from her joint account to a sole account? Obviously not all, we want my father to have his care.

flaneurs_lobster

Your mother wants to move money from her joint account to her sole account? To what purpose?

canarygirl76

I havent said she wants to, I am wondering but how safe funds are for herself and getting by day to day

Albermarle

If your Father ( or the family ) is paying for his own care, then nobody is really interested in the details of his finances. Only if you want the local authority to pay, do they then get interested and looking for any unusual transactions that could be seen as Deprivation of Assets.

Brie

My experience of local authority finance investigations is that they assume money in a joint account is a 50/50 split. Moreover if dad is the one funding the joint account (via pensions etc) that's fine too because it's assumed that his money needs to help support mom (in a traditional sense of men looking after their wives financially).

elsien

Has consideration being given as to whether he is eligible for full CHC funding?

canarygirl76

Thanks all . This matter is resolved .

elsien

Do you feel able to post any information about how it was resolved, in case it can help people with a similar question in future?