FiL is to have a Means test from SS to decide if they want any of their past subsidies for home carers back. I was looking on AgeUK for more insight as to what it involves and found this:
"Make sure you get all of your benefits and entitlements. That’s because the means test will assume you are receiving all the benefits you are entitled to, even if you aren't already claiming them."
FiL is very resistant to claiming anything he may be entitled to as he fears appearing on 'official' radars so he may not have claimed Pension Credit and Council Tax support, and I know he refuses to claim for Attendance Allowance.....altogether that could be in the region of 125 pounds a week (I did their Benefits calculator but I had to guess some of the figures I put in). Will SS think he should be getting these and add them to his pension as income, or does the means test go purely on his savings (over the threshold so probably self financing?)
Our aim is to stop him cancelling all paid help when he finds out he has to pay up, and if we could get him to claim what he's entitled to it would go a long way to paying carers, but we're still struggling with the LPA resistance
"Make sure you get all of your benefits and entitlements. That’s because the means test will assume you are receiving all the benefits you are entitled to, even if you aren't already claiming them."
FiL is very resistant to claiming anything he may be entitled to as he fears appearing on 'official' radars so he may not have claimed Pension Credit and Council Tax support, and I know he refuses to claim for Attendance Allowance.....altogether that could be in the region of 125 pounds a week (I did their Benefits calculator but I had to guess some of the figures I put in). Will SS think he should be getting these and add them to his pension as income, or does the means test go purely on his savings (over the threshold so probably self financing?)
Our aim is to stop him cancelling all paid help when he finds out he has to pay up, and if we could get him to claim what he's entitled to it would go a long way to paying carers, but we're still struggling with the LPA resistance