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Care Home Fees soar

Latest figures compiled by charity Age UK indicate that across the country the average weekly residential care home cost was £504 in 2010/11.  Five years ago the cost was around £412 per week which means they have risen by more than 31% in five years. Nursing homes...

Penalised for Thrift

A report in the Sunday Times on the 27th March highlights the fact that privately funded care home residents are being unfairly penalised in the current economic climate because Councils are refusing to pay fair rates. This has meant that privately funded residents...

Charity begins at Home

New relief in the Budget The Chancellor outlined a new relief  from Inheritance Tax in the Budget last Wednesday. As you probably know bequests or gifts to Charities already  fall outside the Inheritance Tax net. The new relief is to be given to those persons who...

£40m rip-off by Banks for Probate work

On 23rd February the Office of Fair Trading said it has calculated that families could save a total of £40m per year by shopping around for cheaper professional executors to wind up the affairs of deceased relatives. High street Banks have now agreed to review their...