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A locAl wealth advisor Stephen long is currently serving time at Her Majesty’s pleasure, for failing to reveal where he has placed clients’ funds for investment. Funds had been remitted to a trust run by him on the pretext of ring-fencing the money against possible future care Home, or Nursing Home charges. The overall total of such funds is thought to be in the region of £25M but he cannot recall where it is. The trouble is that the scheme


that was set up and publicised by long ought to be possible and legal, but unfortunately it simply is not. A weighty Government booklet called “charging for Residential Accommodation Guide” (“cRAG”) defines all the regulations about assets and disposals and it is very strict in its operation. For example a lady who is


entering a nursing home may legally give away her personal chattels - even, say, a £10K diamond ring, without fear that the gift may be challenged, but she cannot withdraw £10K from her building society with which to buy a diamond ring which is to be the subject of a gift. That gift would be void. According to cRAG your house is safe if your spouse continues to occupy it. These regulations are severe


and are operated by the relevant county council, who are the “safety net” for care home fees, when a resident runs out of funds, but because county council’s finances are very strictly curtailed they cannot be at all relaxed or casual about enforcing recovery. By comparison,


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Inheritance Tax purposes, it is, of course, perfectly allowable to make gifts, which remain valid and unchallenged by HMRc and which have the effect of reducing your estate if you survive the gift by seven years. In fact HMRc have publicity guidance leaflets telling you how best to do this. But these principles are not mirrored in the case of care Home fees and local authorities. There is no such parallel for the seven year survival allowance. This does not mean that


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MUlTIPlE marathon runner John Fensom will be running an incredible twelve marathons – all to raise money in memory of a family friend’s son who sadly died of meningitis. John, from Halesworth, decided to run the races in the space of a year after his childhood friend Bryan Hall and wife Georgie’s six-year- old ollie died from Meningitis B in october 2017. The marathons, which take place all over the country including Ipswich, Edinburgh, and Richmond, will culminate with the london Marathon in April. “After seeing the devastation


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challenge will be at london 2019. It’s a special event for me not only because it was my first ever marathon but also because my father was dying of cancer at the time. “I had to make the hard decision to run it as I knew that’s what he wanted. luckily, I was able to get back to him to show him my finishers medal – but he died four days later. “london 2019 will not


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