This petition was submitted during the 2010-2015 parliament
Petition Introduce fairness in funding of care home fees by raising the capital threshold for state funding and blocking the way that many wealthy avoid them
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Schemes are widely available and advertised in the media whereby the well advised wealthy shelter their assets in a trust so that they avoid care home fees. At the same time ordinary hard working thrifty families lose their family assets when care is needed. The threshold for state funding should be raised from just over £23,000 to £100,000 and the trust avoidance route blocked to fund the change. The present system is unfair.
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