Social Workers are still up to their old tricks.

Hi Movedalot

In all the cases I have witnessed the son / daughter has been asked to fill in a form detailing the parents assetts and there is a question on the form asking if the the property is jointly owned and does anybody else occupy it, how long they had been there if it is not the husband / wife and their age.

I could probably see some argument for the council to take some of the house value if say it was the offspring and they had moved in say 2 weeks ago and had not sold their property.

In all the cases the offspring had been widowed and been sharing the home for 2 years plus and at the time they moved in they did not realise the parent would have to go in to care. They also were joint owners of the house through inheritance from the deceased parent.

It could be difficult if the offspring had moved in say 3 months before with the intention of caring for the parent and the parents condition had suddenly got worse.

It is possible in that sort of case they thought they would move in quick to prevent the council taking part of the house or they may have not realised how bad the situation was.

This did not apply to the situations I had witnessed.

Frank

hunterf are you aware that the information you are so willing giving about your friends can be accessed via google on the internet and that they may not be very happy with you discussing their business on a forum,they may be able to recognise themselves from the information you have so willingly given out.

I have had permission to put the info on Gransnet but not to name them.

Frank

Another thought I have had is I did read some case examples in about 2005 and they were refered to as Mr X or Mrs Y.
I have now thrown these papers away but people ask me to go to meetings with Social Workers as they know I know a lot and I do not charge.
I did check the care fees situation before going to live with Dad although I know most people do not think of this at that stage and I think councils are trying to cut expenditure and rely on the fact that people do not know the law.
Really when I joined Dad I wanted to make sure there was no possibility of being made homeless if he had to go in to care.

Frank

hunterf just wanting to make sure you didn't get into trouble with your pals frank.

If someone owns a part share in a property, it is not relevant whether they have owned it for one day or 100 years. HUNTERF you are raising all sorts of silly issues that are don't count.

I bet everyone loves you in the meetings you attend but I wonder how long they go on.

I actually think that Frank is a figment of his own imagination!
'Proceding from an o'er heated brain'

True.

Have you only just reached that conclusion, Galen?

I'm a bit thick at times

I think the laughs around the Students' Union Bar would be a bit few and far between by now if that were the case, myself...

Ana...you can't mean... no, it can't be true... can it? He's not... real?

I think Frank takes himself a bit too rather seriously, but given the choice between him and a certain Scott character, I know which I'd rather we were stuck with!

Well there is that I suppose!

I think 1 of the assessors gave full NHS funding to get rid of me after I was in the meeting the year before.

Frank

Result, Frank!

HUNTERF Now that I can believe.

I have just been asked to go along to another assessment next week. I was at the meeting when the person had his previous assessment.
If it is the same person doing the assessment I am just wondering what her reaction will be?.

Frank