Q&A: Can I sell Dad’s home before we get a decision on Fair Deal?
That is something you will need to check with the nursing home where your father is before proceeding. It is possible that he will have to move to avail of nursing home support from the State.The basic premise stays the same: you will be charged 7.5 per cent of the market value of the family home at the time your father entered care for the first three years of his private nursing home care as long as he is the sole homeowner.
But what about selling the home before you are signed up for Fair Deal? I haven’t come across this scenario before. Clearly, if you sell before he enters care at all, the proceeds are part of his general assets and subject to charge ad infinitum while he is in care.
First up, as you might expect, the HSE makes clear that they are responding purely in the context of the scenario presented to them – “where the client is in continuous care and wishes to sell the family home to meet the cost of care before a Fair Deal application is made and that the client will remain in an approved nursing home”.
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