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    • Oct 12, 2023

What is the 12 Week Property Disregard?

Updated: Oct 16, 2023

If a person moves into care and has savings of less that £23,250 excluding their property and assuming their house is assessable, then its value will be ignored for the first 3 months of their care and they will be entitled to funding support from their local authority.

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