We are in the process of selling Mums house to pay her care home fees. Twice in the past few days people have asked me how it's going and told me how they found a way round it. One told me her father put half his bungalow in her name so they couldn't touch that part. Another man told me to get my Mum to treat herself to some VERY expensive jewellery to get rid of some of the money.
I am basically a very honest person, as is Mum but it is making me think.
Mum has barely any savings now and her and Dad worked so hard to buy their council house years ago and she was out cleaning people's houses and my dad was working all week full time and then doing an extra job on Saturdays. Neither of them smoked or drank and we didn't have a holiday until I was 16 and we went to the New Forest.
I know some won't agree with me but it does bother me that all her money (bar £23,000) will be eaten up in Care home fees for a condition she can do nothing about and she's not even happy there most of the time!
I am basically a very honest person, as is Mum but it is making me think.
Mum has barely any savings now and her and Dad worked so hard to buy their council house years ago and she was out cleaning people's houses and my dad was working all week full time and then doing an extra job on Saturdays. Neither of them smoked or drank and we didn't have a holiday until I was 16 and we went to the New Forest.
I know some won't agree with me but it does bother me that all her money (bar £23,000) will be eaten up in Care home fees for a condition she can do nothing about and she's not even happy there most of the time!