Trying to figure out the Fair deal Scheme for relatives in a very complicated scenario. A deceased person who lived in a HSE care home for nearly 3 years. Basic details are:
Marital Status: Unmarried Couple, separated after 10 years together and lived apart for last 5+ years.
Living arrangements: one in care home, one living elsewhere, possible another home they owned prior to becoming a couple.
Assets: Home 200K, empty for nearly 3 years
Legal Title:Tenants in common, Joint Tenancy, so on death the living spouse partner inherits everything
Shares: 80K
Cash: 20K
Income: State pension, 240 weekly, bank interest, probably nothing, some dividends.
Questions:
1. The house becomes the living partner's property. Does this count for the FD calculation of the deceased?
2. The LPT is not due because the house was vacant and both owners were not living there, one in a care home and the other elsewhere?
3. Vacant Property Tax not due as LPT exempt?
4. How does one do the actual calculation of the Fair Deal?
Not sure, but living partner may also have been in a care home, they are still living. If that is relevant. Their adult child, probably aged 50+ has moved into the home.
I'm not sure if more details are needed.
Marital Status: Unmarried Couple, separated after 10 years together and lived apart for last 5+ years.
Living arrangements: one in care home, one living elsewhere, possible another home they owned prior to becoming a couple.
Assets: Home 200K, empty for nearly 3 years
Legal Title:
Shares: 80K
Cash: 20K
Income: State pension, 240 weekly, bank interest, probably nothing, some dividends.
Questions:
1. The house becomes the living partner's property. Does this count for the FD calculation of the deceased?
2. The LPT is not due because the house was vacant and both owners were not living there, one in a care home and the other elsewhere?
3. Vacant Property Tax not due as LPT exempt?
4. How does one do the actual calculation of the Fair Deal?
Not sure, but living partner may also have been in a care home, they are still living. If that is relevant. Their adult child, probably aged 50+ has moved into the home.
I'm not sure if more details are needed.
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