4th estate
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I can identify with your situation. The fair deal is an excellent scheme for many people, but unfortunately, if you have considerable assets, and there are not protected (as is the primary residence) then over the course of twenty years they will disappear totally.
In the next room to your mother, there will be a little old dear that smoked, drank, and ran loose with men with no assets and they'll pay 80% of thier pension, and nothing else, - but to the nursing home, it all the same amount of money
I thought your mum could retain €36,000 in savings and still use the Fair Deal scheme.
Forgive the rant, I am just raging that it costs so much to look after her.
Perhaps you didn't mean to sound so cold with this sentiment, but it's the only part of your 'rant' that sticks in my memory
I thought your mum could retain €36,000 in savings and still use the Fair Deal scheme.
No, never coldhearted, what I really meant to say was that I was raging that because my late father was a hard worker and prudent, and a planner, he left my mum in a good financial situation. And while that means she is now well looked after, it seems to me that if Dad had drunk or gambled his way through everything, and left nothing behind, mum would now qualify for the Fair Deal. I realise that those who do qualify are not all the result of profligacy during their lifetimes, before I get another rap on the knuckles!
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