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costs You remain responsible for repairing and insuring the property. The equity release provider will expect you to maintain your home to a reasonable standard. If you do not, the provider can carry ... or the cost can be added to the amount you owe. Remember maintenance costs can be high and there will still be Council Tax and other bills to pay. 3.5 Moving house You may want to move somewhere smaller
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Summary Families in the UK are changing. This brief review looks at how changing family structures will influence the supply and demand for formal and informal care by older people? • Most informal ... nce of long vertical multi‐generational families replacing the former laterally extended family forms. Increased longevity may increase the duration spent in certain kinship roles, such as spouse, p
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The amount of Winter Fuel Payment You will receive £200 if at least one qualifying person in the household is aged between State Pension age and 79. The payment will be £300 if at least one qualifying person ... Payments are tax-free and do not affect your other benefits. The main claimant of the qualifying benefit will receive the payment for the household. Age UK factsheet 49 (Amended September 2024) June 2024 Social
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to support people living with dementia to have a voice in decisions that are being made. Referral forms and contact details can be found on our website https://www.ageuk.org. uk/cymru/our-work/advocacy/ ... advocacy@agecymru.org.uk. We recognise that everyone will have different levels of prior understanding of both advocacy and human rights, and at the end of the toolkit we will signpost to other resources that you might
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maintains its value, and unless it is continues there is an increased risk that future pensioners will not achieve adequate retirement incomes. People currently in their late 50s and early 60s are adversely ... difference to the lives of many older people on low and modest incomes. Any move to means-test these forms of support could result in those who need it most missing out, and cause hardship to those just above
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the advantages that they are not currently aware of and become more interested in going online. It will, however, be necessary to ensure that attempts to encourage online use go beyond the provision of ... this audience, being forced online by withdrawal of alternative means of accessing goods and services will be very problematic, with a potentially damaging impact on health and wellbeing. o For those who
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September 1958 (for the financial year 2024-25) plus – from 2024 onwards – the older person will also need to be receiving one of the following means-tested benefits: Pension Credit Universal Credit ... Universal Credit and Housing Benefit. If you claim a qualifying benefit, the government will assess your energy costs based on the type, age and size of your property. This happens on a
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full recovery and need to return for further treatment), a half-course of falls prevention exercise will be ineffective and result in even greater costs to health and social care services and may even increase ... to ensure a smooth transition on from FaME/Otago programmes to further exercise opportunities. This will enable older people who have fallen to continue the progression of training to ensure effective outcomes
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from one computer to another. You may be sent an email with an attachment which when you click on it will release a virus. Criminals can then use this to take control of your computer, or the virus may ... fake bank website may be set up asking you to update your account or security information. Often they will look very similar, and only a few tiny details may be different. There are also websites which are
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help, we can do more to enrich the lives of many, both at home and abroad. By joining forces, we will ensure that more of our funds go where they are needed. We are now one of the most powerful and influential ... funded the research. And we hope that our ten recommendations for Government and the payments industry will be debated and acted on. Tom Wright CBE Group Chief Executive 4 The Way We Pay Research aims A secure
