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Getting older with autism - Govt a disgrace.

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"You turn if you want to! The lady's not for turning." Margaret Thatcher said that.

David Cameron demonstrates that U turns are not beneath him. Elderly people with autism have needs too, and look at how he treats pensioners who have not inherited daddy's fortune.

Affordable old age: U-turn on money for elderly care

Government revives plans to limit individual cost of care to £35,000, despite Treasury concerns. The amount of money that people will have to pay towards the cost of their care in old age is to be capped by the Government after a dramatic policy rethink by David Cameron.

  • I deduce, as best I can, that you feel that people with money are being helped whereas people without funds aren't?

    But let me put this another way. The parents of an adult with autism reach old age. They cannot support themselves let alone their grown up child. They have to go into a home for the elderly.

    Under current law, if they have funds (including the value of their house) they have to use that up before they qualify for assistance. The cost of residential home care is considerable, and paying for it yourself very quickly uses up those funds. Many elderly, who worked hard and saved all their lives end up losing all their assets and then being cared for by the state when it runs out, when what they have saved is no longer there to fall back on.

    But if they have dependents, like an autistic son or daughter that money isn't then available to pass on to them to help with their lives.

    The new plan is to limit the amount of their assets they have to use up to £35,000. The treasury is worried about how to pay for the increased care. But at least it means that some of parents' savings can be passed on to their children

    If those children are disabled, including autism, it means they can benefit now, where they couldn't before.

    I don't know if you agree. But is £35,00 of your own moneyy, as a top limit, too much to pay in before you get to receive benefits to be able to stay in a care home?