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When Is Your Own, Not Your Own?
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Surely when it is your own property you should be able to do with it as you like?
What next will councils check up on any valuable items such as paintings jewellery etc that one gives over to their children?
Surely when it is your own property you should be able to do with it as you like?
What next will councils check up on any valuable items such as paintings jewellery etc that one gives over to their children?
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The problem here is the utter iniquity of the current arrangements and Clary has demonstrated the unfairness admirably. Is it fair? I think not. If long term care is to be provided by the State it should be provided for everybody and, like health care, should not be means tested. As an aside, although it makes little difference, the burden of these costs should...
15:33 Sat 19th Oct 2013
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I thought you were against benefit scams
That ia all this is, a scam.
Councils, us council tax payers, will fund care for people who cannot afford it. These people are deliberately making themselves poor by giving away their property.
Instead of bleating you should be campaigning and lobbying your MPsto make care a universal, none means tested benefit. Except that does sound like a very socialist idea, and very expensive.
I thought you were against benefit scams
That ia all this is, a scam.
Councils, us council tax payers, will fund care for people who cannot afford it. These people are deliberately making themselves poor by giving away their property.
Instead of bleating you should be campaigning and lobbying your MPsto make care a universal, none means tested benefit. Except that does sound like a very socialist idea, and very expensive.
That is surely the point of the whole article, though, isn't it? I misspoke wrt to inheritance tax, FGT - I meant creative gifting to divest oneself of an asset that would be factored into any care home fees and state/local council financial assistance. It is a similar principle though.
Not sure the law does allow it though, does it? Hence the power to track assets and see what has become of them. I understand that if a loophole exists, people will use it, but by and large I approve of measures that close loopholes.
Not sure the law does allow it though, does it? Hence the power to track assets and see what has become of them. I understand that if a loophole exists, people will use it, but by and large I approve of measures that close loopholes.
Its either legal or illegal...make your mind up
if its legal i dont get what some are bleating about, the moral aspect is another argument entirely.
if people get benefits legally then i have no problem, if illegaly, yes then i'm against
"I had assumed you were against ALL benefit scroungers Baz? "
nope only certain people and that definitely includes all foreign claimantslegal or otherwise that have never paid into the systemand and only came here because of the benefits...but thats for another post on another day isnt it
if its legal i dont get what some are bleating about, the moral aspect is another argument entirely.
if people get benefits legally then i have no problem, if illegaly, yes then i'm against
"I had assumed you were against ALL benefit scroungers Baz? "
nope only certain people and that definitely includes all foreign claimantslegal or otherwise that have never paid into the systemand and only came here because of the benefits...but thats for another post on another day isnt it
