Information & advice

What are the financial implications for you or your partner if one of you moves into a care home? Can the person in care pass any money back to help a partner maintain their standard of living?

Our factsheet explains how the local authority treats your individual and joint assets when assessing whether you qualify for help with care home fees.

It includes information on:

• How couples’ assets are regarded in the means test
• What if you both enter a care home?
• Help for the person remaining at home
• The Government's planned changes to ‘liable relative’ payments

This information will be useful for anyone who needs to know how married couples, civil partners and other couples are treated in the local authority means test.

Further information
Please download our factsheet in the top right corner of this page for detailed information.