Good evening everyone,
We are getting very confused about funding care for our mum.
At present our county council is paying for her care at the local authority rate and we pay some towards it.
Dad passed away, 6 months ago and so mum's house either had to be sold or deferred payments made, it has taken a long while to get a contract from the lcc which arrived today for signing.
However, our concern is, this, we applied for attendance allowance for mum which had been awarded based on she is self funding, as payments will be deferred, my concern is though, will the care home ask for the further 400pds weekly and class her the same as those who pay the full private care price.
If this is so, would we be better to just sell the house and do the funding ourselves with the money raised from the house, and would that affect her attendance allowance.
This is really confusing.
Thank you for any ideas in advance.
H
We are getting very confused about funding care for our mum.
At present our county council is paying for her care at the local authority rate and we pay some towards it.
Dad passed away, 6 months ago and so mum's house either had to be sold or deferred payments made, it has taken a long while to get a contract from the lcc which arrived today for signing.
However, our concern is, this, we applied for attendance allowance for mum which had been awarded based on she is self funding, as payments will be deferred, my concern is though, will the care home ask for the further 400pds weekly and class her the same as those who pay the full private care price.
If this is so, would we be better to just sell the house and do the funding ourselves with the money raised from the house, and would that affect her attendance allowance.
This is really confusing.
Thank you for any ideas in advance.
H