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Amid all the froth and anger about the "Death Tax", we are still staring like rabbits at the real scam in all this. The Sunday Telegraph "special report" on care of the elderly opens with this:
"Grace Young had lived for more than 50 years in the terraced house her husband Edward had worked hard to provide. Her only son, John, was brought up in the three-bedroomed home in Carshalton, south London; the couple intended the house to become his inheritance.
Last year, that dream was shattered. When Mrs Young, now widowed, and 87, became increasingly confused as the result of a rare syndrome, her son realised that she would need to move into a care home.
Under the current rules of "means-testing" that meant one thing: selling their much-loved family home to pay the fees. "
Allow me to translate. This couple are expecting the taxpayer - you and me - to pick up the tab for their Mum's care so they can inherit her house. They're not living in that house - they have their own "much-loved family" home somewhere else.
In just how many ways is that wrong?
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1 comment:
I agree with you, totally. The truth is that 'the much loved family home' would be sold by the family as soon as the old lady departed this earth. So 'much loved family home' is code for 'Show me the money' - but 'much loved family home' is so much more emotive, don't you think?
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