Capability to pay fees letter

Capability to pay fees letter

A Scottish Care member has kindly shared some letter templates that they use to try and establish a person’s capability to pay for their room within a care home. This letter template also allows POAs and Guardians to complete it.

It covers three options:

  1. A person has sufficient savings without selling a property
  2. A person has savings for a short period but then would have to sell a property
  3. A person’s immediate assets are below the upper Capital Limit but they have a property to sell.

Where there is a property to sell, there is a need to clarify if it is joint ownership or spouse or partner is still in the home or if there any mortgages or loans against the property.

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