Care home costs review Downing Street indicated yesterday that the government may be willing to show some flexibility after ministers were accused of reneging on a deal that people would not have to sell their homes to pay for long-term care. The PM’s spokesman said that a proposal to exempt people with assets of more than £23,250 - on top of the value of their main home - from a scheme to defer the costs of long-term care was merely a starting point. Elsewhere, in an opinion piece for the Times, Lord Lipsey, a former member of the Royal Commission on Long Term Care for the Elderly, argues that people should not have to sell their homes to pay for care. He also says that elderly people who make innocent mistakes filling in official forms would face court action and seizure of assets under new rules on the funding of social care.
Posted on: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 07:47:59 +0000
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