Care Advice and Help Financial Information Part 2

The Money Advice Service website offers detailed information relating to care advice and help, including the following topics.

Solving problems if family members are helping you:

• Check your concerns are valid
• Get expert advice
• Take action if necessary
• Employing someone to help with your care: What can a carer or personal assistant do for you?
• Using direct payments to appoint a personal assistant
• Using a home care agency
• Employing a personal assistant directly
• Using a carer or personal assistant to manage your direct payments
• When someone needs formal help managing their money:Is a formal arrangement really the best thing to do?
• If the person you want to help has mental capacity
• If the person you want to help has lost mental capacity
• Setting up a power of attorney:What is a power of attorney?
• When to think about setting up a power of attorney
• Choosing your attorney
• Types of lasting power of attorney
• Setting up a power of attorney
• Registration and costs
• Cancelling a lasting power of attorney
• If you already have an enduring power of attorney
• Setting up a trust:What is a trust
• When you might use a trust
• How to set up a trust
• Find a solicitor to draw up a trust
• Get more information about trusts
• What is a trustee?:What is a trust?
• What is a trustee? Trustees and tax
• Being a trustee - what are you responsible for if something goes wrong?
• If you're asked to be a trustee
• Resolving problems with attorneys and trustees: What are attorneys and trustees?
• When to worry about attorneys and trustees
• If you're worried about an attorney or deputy
• If you're concerned about a trustee
• Self-funding your long-term care - your options: Why you may need to pay for long-term care
• Check your entitlements
• How to fund your long-term care
• Sale-and-rent-back schemes
• Other options for funding your long-term care
• Next steps

The Money Advice Service
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