Pensions being paid while parents are still alive.

Galen

I am sure I read somewhere the children have to pay for their parents care in France as well.
This must cause difficulties to the children as I would imagine the ones who will have to pay the most will be children of parents who have very little in terms of assets.
I know somebody whose mother has been in care since 2006 in a London Home and she is NHS funded. She only has 1 living son.
You can imagine how much that has cost so far.
The other problem is if there are children who are abroad and can not be forced to pay because of the laws of the country they were in.

Another interesting situation which happened to a friend of mine was he was born in Belgium but came to the UK when he was less than a month old.
He got called for National Service in Belgium and was working for a London bank at the time.
If he had been working for a Belgium employer the employer would have been obliged to keep his job open for him. There was no such obligation in the UK.
Realising the situation the Belgium authorities exempted him. He could not even speak the language so he would have been of little use to them so they did show some common sense.

Frank

Vindicated in Belgium!

As a matter of perhaps interest,in a conversation with the judges at the court today, came up the subject of payment for parent's care expenses.
Apparently, in Belgium and probably other countries, the children DO have to pay for their parent's care.
It is means tested and divided amongst them.

HUNTERF IS VINDICATED

Not that long ago elegran and it wasn't a hurtful post JO merely wondering. But then the rules apply ....???

Bentley my dear, you do talk a lot of tennis

At the end of the day I could not see Gerry's proposals becoming law.

Frank

Gadzooks , FAYE .

Why not write a post so you can argue with yourself, gives you purpose if you have nothing else better to do with your life.

It's quite likely that someone from HQ saw the post and deleted it to avoid hurt.

Must have been somewhere else long enough ago to slip down the timeline and disappear. I don't remember it. The theory has been around for some time anyway, I can't imagine it offending anyone's sensibilities if it was just wondering. Similar theories have been expressed about other pairs of posters without deletions.

Was it on this thread? If it was it has not only been deleted but completely annihilated.

Still waiting! Interesting...

Is it possible that someone at HQ noticed the post and decided to delete it? Does a post have to be reported by one of us to be deleted? I can't believe that any regular poster would be bothered to report something so trivial which doesn't do any harm to anyone. Come to that, how many of us read the guidelines so minutely as to know that this contravenes them?

I agree ANA , so who would be bothered to take the time it report , it all seems faintly riduculous to me .

Nonu, I think we're at cross-purposes here!
I was just saying that I doin't think either Frank or Bentley would take offence at any post questioning whether they were one and the same person - let alone be bothered enough to report it!

I think the big wooden spoon as been stirring things up.

EM , why if I may ask , I did not see any particular harm in them !

No, I was actually being serious, Nonu! And Charleygirl's post would have to be reported too...

Who's going to report Ariadne?

Oh go on, pretty please , or your lips sealed ?

I couldn't possibly speculate!

ANA, are you being a scamp ?

Or anyone else's, of course...

AKA, wonder who reported your comment ?

I don't think either Frank or Bentley would dream of reporting your post, Aka!