HC Deb 27 January 1997 vol 289 cc112-3W
Sir Andrew Bowden

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what plans he has to require social services departments to disregard 50 per cent. of the income from a personal pension when a person whose spouse lives in the family home enters long-term care. [12990]

Mr. Burns

Regulations are being amended with effect from 7 April 1997 so that local authorities will be required to ignore 50 per cent. of any personal pension or retirement annuity contract of a person who enters long-term residential care who has a spouse who is not living in the same residential care or nursing home.