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Help For my elderly MOM
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You should, of course, take proper and thorough advice - please do make sure your Mum does that.
But I fear the answer is going to be that she will be treated as if she had the money still, under the deprivation of capital rules. They are in place to stop people giving away or blowing their own money, and then claiming benefits....much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0 -
neverdespairgirl wrote: »You should, of course, take proper and thorough advice - please do make sure your Mum does that.
But I fear the answer is going to be that she will be treated as if she had the money still, under the deprivation of capital rules. They are in place to stop people giving away or blowing their own money, and then claiming benefits.
Any ideas where I can get proper advice by sitig down with someone other than the CAB etc someone like a financial wiz onthis kind of issue?
Where do I start to look ?
Many thanks,
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The CAB will be useful - but you could perhaps try age concern.0
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I can't understand why the family haven't given their mother back the money she gave them previously. Several people on here have gone to a lot of trouble to give information which has been ignored because it wasn't what the OP wanted to hear. A suggestion has also been made to contact Help the Aged and this has been ignored as well.
I feel that the family have let down their mother badly.0
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