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Are you serious?
£2k per Week to Live in Old Peoples' Home!
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Are you serious?
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Well i am... Recently fixed her back door.
Seriously.. Im never going to make enough to spend money like that on a NURSEING HOME just for her to die there
You should help pay because you bought into the whole live in England thing.
Not everyone is in a position to have made provision for these things.
And lets have it right, if we can pay for half the world to live here, we can pay for the care of English pensioners, maybe we should prioritise who we waste our resources on, buts thats another argument of course.
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Must just be you... im planning on haveing a wife and a big house and 4 kids... no room for parents there
Iv got the big house mate, but what thats got to do with this country helping pensioners is beyond me.
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See what will happen is if your mum gets ill and requires a nursing home, the government will take her house and all her savings & investments till she only has £16k left then they will pay for it from there
Yep and those who can't afford it get state help anyway- so what's the problem?
Like most things, if you can afford it, you pay for it. If you can't, you get a basic package off the state. Can you show me some example of people who genuinely cannot afford to have their folks looked after and being refused any state help? No one said life was easy or fair, and it's not up to the gov't to right all the wrongs in your family life for you. We cannot afford it.
Can you elaborate on having half the world live here?
Its a price quote from a quite obviously 'up market' nursing home, if you cant afford that, they will have to go in a slightly less flash one.
Just the same with anything in life, suck it up and get one you can afford instead of moaning about it.
Just the same with anything in life, suck it up and get one you can afford instead of moaning about it.
Why should people who have made no provision for their retirement at all be subsidised by the state? What is in the incentive to pay into a private pension / invest money throughout your working career?
Because they can't afford it? ...and never could.
Seriously if you cant see why the state should help pensioners im not going to tell you.
We are talking about old maybe ill people here, not a lazy 25 year old that cant be arsed to get a job.
Next time I'm in a hotel I'll see if they'll come wipe my arse cook and cut my dinner up for me, and take me for a stroll around the garden.
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it is an extortionate amount but private care charges what private carers can get away with.
and people think that the public sector is a rip off;/
and its true, the state does not OWE you a quality of life after you retire. it is surely your and your families responsibility to pay for, and look after your (former) heads of your household.
if you want to move them in with you so that you can look after them 24/7 thats great. you will save yourself the money and give genuinely good care. but ultimately not everyone wants to do this (and some people simply cant, or choose not too)...
and then you have people who will strip themselves of all their assets to lug future generations with higher tax and state costs that will be required to cover them in some kind of percieved short terminism - where they believe that the state has infinite money and will never need to tax the future genefation to cover the cost of today, or yesterday.
and people think that the public sector is a rip off;/
and its true, the state does not OWE you a quality of life after you retire. it is surely your and your families responsibility to pay for, and look after your (former) heads of your household.
if you want to move them in with you so that you can look after them 24/7 thats great. you will save yourself the money and give genuinely good care. but ultimately not everyone wants to do this (and some people simply cant, or choose not too)...
and then you have people who will strip themselves of all their assets to lug future generations with higher tax and state costs that will be required to cover them in some kind of percieved short terminism - where they believe that the state has infinite money and will never need to tax the future genefation to cover the cost of today, or yesterday.
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I think your getting mixed up with a nursing home and a retirement home, a nursing is for the sick which is funded from national insurance or if you have >£16k your funds and a retirement home is a lifestyle choice, most retirement homes won't administer complicated care and only you would pay for it.