Care Funding
At Wilson Browne Solicitors, our specialist Care Home Fees team offers clear, expert advice to individuals and families navigating the complex rules around paying for long-term care. We guide clients through local authority financial assessments, self-funding care arrangements, Deferred Payment Agreements, third-party top-up agreements, and issues like deliberate deprivation of assets. Whether you’re entering residential care, challenging a funding decision, or planning ahead, our team provides practical, compassionate support, including free home visits (where agreed), to help protect your assets and ensure care arrangements are handled properly.
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Our Specialists In Care Funding And Home Fees
The rules and regulations relating to care home fees can be confusing and you could find yourself dealing with many different organisations. -
What You Need To Know When Going Into A Care Home
My mother or father has gone into a care home, they have lost capacity, do I have to sell their house… -
Care Home Fees and Financial Assessments
The majority of people when they enter permanent residential care are described as ‘self-funders’ meaning they fund 100% of their care placement. -
Topping Up Care or Care Home Fees
The local authority will set a personal budget sufficient to meet the residents’ needs, but a person has a choice of where to live (subject to suitability, availability and within costs set by the local authority. However, fees can be “topped up”… -
Paying For Care Under A Deferred Payment Agreements (DPA)
A Deferred Payment Agreements is an agreement between you (or your Attorney or Deputy on your behalf) and your Local Authority that let’s you use your home to cover the cost of your care. It means you do not have to sell your home immediately. -
Deliberate Deprivation of Assets
In England and Wales, a deliberate deprivation of assets occurs when an individual intentionally reduces their wealth, such as money or property, to decrease the amount they are liable to pay toward their care fees. -
Property Disregards for Care Funding
If a care assessment results in you or your loved one moving into a full time care facility, the Local Authority may need to complete a financial assessment to establish how your fees will be paid. -
Types of Care Funding
Funding for care home fees can be paid by you, The Local Authority, The Clinical Commissioning Group (formerly the Primary Care Trust), a third party or a combination of any of the above. -
Care funding And Care Home Fees – Frequently Asked Questions
Care home fees - answers to frequently asked questions.
