Hold on.... If the person who needs care is your partner and the home in the other country is the home you both lived in together AND there's no other property apart from this temporary ENFORCED rental
I can only disagree, unless you actually live in the house then it's not a mandatory disregard wherever the house is located, you have to be physically living in it otherwise it's an asset.
The rental is not "ENFORCED" it's a lifestyle decision to move from the home abroad and to rent in the UK, anyone from anywhere could own a home abroad, come to the UK and rent then claim UK benefits hence the need to prove habitual residence.
My mother moved about 8 miles to live with me but I lived in a different LA/health authority and I had to prove she "habitually" lived with me and while she still owned a house (8 miles away) my LA said she was the other LA's problem and her LA said it was mine.
Even within the UK to get help you have to pass the residency test and owning a house anywhere can make the LA say it's not their problem.
I had to get my mum on the electoral register, registered with a doctor, have her benefits registered at my address and a few other things before my LA would accept her as their responsibility and not keep telling me physically living with me wasn't enough to qualify for help.
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