Protecting a house against long-term care money grab

EdInvestor

baby_boomer wrote: »

....unless the pensioners get properly organised.

In this case, IMHO it's more the children of the dementia victims that need to get organised.

baby_boomer

baby_boomer wrote: »

But any future UK government ..... is not going to listen unless the pensioners get properly organised.

EdInvestor wrote: »

In this case, IMHO it's more the children of the dementia victims that need to get organised.

Of course, these may well be pensioners themselves! And in a busy world it is often pensioners who have the time.

EdInvestor

baby_boomer wrote: »

Of course, these may well be pensioners themselves! And in a busy world it is often pensioners who have the time.

IMHO it usually boils down to who's got the incentive to take action.And in the care fees case, the losers are the kids, not the oldies themselves.

monkeyspanner

There is an article in the Sunday Times today about a leaked Government report investigating illegal immigrants working in care homes. The report by the immigration intelligence section of the Home Office was produced 2 years ago and details 110 investigations into care home staff in the South and South West. In the worst of the investigations up to 50% of the staff were illegal immigrants working on false papers. The immigration intelligence report found that one illegal worker was a murder suspect from the Philippines and others had been involved in the “abuse and mistreatment” of elderly people.

For full article use this link.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article3646516.ece


“Very few of these cases are acted on,” one official said. “Ministers have turned a blind eye in the obscene interests of costs. These cases are not seen as a priority and most of them simply go to the bottom of the pile.”