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Chip, many people will know more than me about this. Steve is only 57 so not receiving pension but as I understand it, they take their pension and leave them with a small amount. I really can't be surre about that. It seems different wherever you live, a friend of mine in Yorkshire was asked if they could pay £100pw top up fees for her father and they said no and then they heard from the same home a few weeks later, could they afford £10 a week top up! Seems ridiculous. I was supposed to be paying £60 per week for Steve's top up fees and he went into the home on 14th March last year and for a couple of weeks just before Christmas he got Nursing Care because he had fits (he's got Continuing Care now so I don't pay a penny but this is reviewed about 3 monthly) but I only heard about me supposed to be paying this £60 a week when the social worker was visiting him at the home. As I said, they have apologized for the delay but they wanted £2,547.21 (the first figure I gave you was wrong) and said in the letter, "I understand from the social worker that you may wish to pay the money in insallments, if this is the same, ring The Debt Recovery Controller. I fortunately managed to pay the whole sum but I was ready to ofer them as little as posible per month, they can't have it if you haven't got it!
I also receive Incapacity Benefit for Steve even though he's in the home full time and disability living allowance, the mobility component. I have rung many times to make sure that this is right and they're not paying me money I shouldn't have and they have written and confirmed it's correct. Mind you, they told me that with the Job Seekers Allowance but I didn't have to pay that back because I had been telling them for 4 months that they were paying me too much. Have you been to your Citizens Advice or One Stop Shop or even a carers support worker for the alzheimer's society?
Sue