As a concept the Nursing Homes Support Scheme is
straightforward. The plan is aimed at providing full-time home or nursing
facility care for a certain group of people who do not have the financial or
familial means to care for them. For most of its part, the more you have, the
more costly it will be for you. Many families and individuals face
unprecedented complexities due to a lack of understanding of the scheme and
taking unconscious steps in a hurry. This article is aimed to enlighten future
applicants about all such situations and how to deal with them so that you can
have a truly Fair Deal.
Understanding the Nursing Home
Support Scheme Cost of Care
The core design of the fair deal scheme
simplifies it to be most helpful for particular candidates who are on pension
and have few or no assets.
This is because, while the plan provides
financial assistance, it does not fully finance your nursing home care. The
candidate must contribute 80% of their income and savings, as well as 7.5% of
the cost of their non-cash assets.
For different individuals, the scheme works
differently under the plan, although the contribution is the same for all
unless the applicant has a spouse or family member with whom they share a home
or income.
The Common Areas of the Fair Deal
Complexities
Although the plan is open to everyone in need
of long-term nursing home care. The layout of it entails that while you pay
less if you have a low income and little assets, you wind up paying a lot more
if you have a large estate - nearly as much as you’d be paying for private
facilities. Now, nursing home care is not the only expense you’d be having, the
following areas are often subject to complexities amid the application process:
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Tax Relief
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Medical Expenses
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Looking after a Spouse
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Looking after a family
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Understanding the significance of
a Power of Attorney
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Guidance of family inheritance
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Guidance about family businesses
and farms
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The nursing home loan scheme
Another major complexity is saving non-cash assets
such as homes, farms and businesses. While cash assets can be transferred on a
weekly or monthly basis, how can someone pay against a property?
This pushes the applicant to the clip wherein
they have to sell their house or get it under the mortgage. The Nursing Home
Loan or Ancillary State Support is what deters the applicant from selling or
mortgaging their house. Meanwhile, the cash asset contribution would exempt
Taxes, Critical Medical Expenses, Caring for a child or other unemployed family
members. Moreover, the first €36,000 out of savings would be exempted too.
Thanks to the Dail, the new amendment is now
in place which secures the 3-year cap for farming families and principal
residences to get an exemption from the cost of care after a period of 3years.
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