I was asked to go in to a meeting with a lady yesterday as her mother was going to be taken into care but sadly her mother passed away before the meeting finished.
The daughter was widowed in 2002 and has been living with her mother since 2003.
Her father passed away in 2001 and she got half of the house under the terms of the will.
Her mother had to give up driving in the 90's due to sight problems.
The daughter is obviously very upset but I will invite her on to Gransnet at a more appropriate time.
The Social Worker did ask how did they share the expenses for the house and the answer was the mother had the direct debits for the council tax, electric, gas, water etc on her account and the daughter was paying for holidays, car running and car changes etc and buying most of the food.
The Social Worker then said that the daughter would have to pay half of the house running expenses back to her mother from when she moved in to the house and the fact she was paying for car running expenses etc did not count.
The mother went on holidays with the daughter, and she was in the car most of the time when it was used and even when the daughter was in the car on her own it was often to go and fetch something for the mother.
Obviously the mother eat some of the food.
Has anybody else had this problem with a Social Worker when somebody has been taken in to care?. It looks as if the daughter was paying at least half of the overall expenses even though she was contributing nothing to the house.
This was a similar arrangement to what I had with my father but he never went in to care.
The daughter has asked me to check this out as there are 2 other similar situations in the family.
I supose the mother and daughter could have paid half the house expenses each but would the council accept 2 direct debit payments in respect of one council tax bill and take half the money from 1 account and half from the other.
Also the daughter could have charged the mother every time she took her out in the car but things would get complex and I am sure this is not the way families want to operate.
Frank
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