I have never given much thought to comparing what my wife pays for her residential care to what the other residents pay. It is none of my business anyway. It is a bit like when one gets a bargain deal from a travel company. At the resort one will always find someone who says they got a better deal ...
I don't agree with the current system but have had to work with it to get my wife the care that she needs. Perhaps for the 18 months that she was self-funding she may have been subsidising other residents. I just thought of it as paying the going rate. Now her funds are below the threshold her contribution has reduced massively. The council has picked up the remainder of the tab, at whatever rate it has negotiated commensurate with its available budget.
Funding for social care - like so many other things - is deeply flawed but I'm afraid that it isn't going to change any time soon.
I don't agree with the current system but have had to work with it to get my wife the care that she needs. Perhaps for the 18 months that she was self-funding she may have been subsidising other residents. I just thought of it as paying the going rate. Now her funds are below the threshold her contribution has reduced massively. The council has picked up the remainder of the tab, at whatever rate it has negotiated commensurate with its available budget.
Funding for social care - like so many other things - is deeply flawed but I'm afraid that it isn't going to change any time soon.