My wife has been made appointee for her mum (who has Alzheimer's) as we cannot afford to pay for power of attorney and now we are wondering how to sort out paying the electric & gas bills my wife rang the electric supplier & explained that her mum is no longer able to make decisions very well due to the Alzheimer's and they said without POA they couldn't tell her anything about the bill unless her mum could sign a letter or actually tell them over the phone that she was happy for her daughter to sort out the bill but my wife explained that would be illegal as her mum would not know what the letter was or the phone call so now my wife is in serious panic mode wondering what we can do now
Eventually we will have to give up the place where her mum used to live and get the gas & electric cut off and pay the final bill but how can we do this legally without POA ???
It's taken 7 months for social services to give a social worker and we are still waiting for them to make the decision that it would be in the best interest to make mum a permanent resident in the home and we are just stuck in limbo wondering what we can do next
Eventually we will have to give up the place where her mum used to live and get the gas & electric cut off and pay the final bill but how can we do this legally without POA ???
It's taken 7 months for social services to give a social worker and we are still waiting for them to make the decision that it would be in the best interest to make mum a permanent resident in the home and we are just stuck in limbo wondering what we can do next