Hi i am looking for some advice my Mother has been in a care home since 2014, she has been self funding. She has now reached the stage where her capitol is down to £23,000, so i contacted the local authority to take over. In the meantime she had pension, private pension and attendance allowance go in to her current account, so the local authority said this put her over the £23,500 threshold so she must still pay full fees. My argument is that her pensions etc is income and not capitol so should not be taken into account when initiating proceedings, after all they will take it out as part of her fees anyway. Age concern agreed with me, but the local authority is insisting that the pensions etc added to her capitol makes her over the threshold so must still pay full fees. Who is right?
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