Life Are annuities still available these days on the Irish market?

I am happy to take their word on it. I am not an expert on it. I have one client who only recently went into a nursing home and he was nowhere near qualifying for the Fair Deal. With the family home and a decent sized ARF, an awful lot of retiree's facing nursing home cost will have to pay for it themselves.
 
This is the relevant AAM post on the topic where a poster quotes the HSE confirming:

 
Thanks NoRegrets,

Isn't it bizarre that the commentaries that I linked to are wrong?

Also, from the thread you quoted, the poster who provided the helpful info said......

Hope this helps someone. I've asked HSE to update their generally available guidance because I could not find any information along these lines after weeks of research and it shouldn't be a state secret.

The incompetence of these guys in the HSE is impressive. They do ladybird editions regarding the precise treatment of one's house but not a mention anywhere that I could see regarding one's other likely big asset in later years. If you think about it, where is a vulnerable old person going to get decent info about all this? It seems from this thread that the relevant info will be hard to come by from financial advisers, or financial journalists or the HSE?
 
jasdpace@gmail. said:
The incompetence of these guys in the HSE is impressive. They do ladybird editions regarding the precise treatment of one's house but not a mention anywhere that I could see regarding one's other likely big asset in later years.
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I agree. It's basically a tax and should be left to Revenue to administer but for cosmetic reasons government has to pretend it's to do with the health service.

HSE bureaucrats are many things but they are not tax collectors.
 
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