Almary Green: Elderly must reclaim care fees before September

The Department of Health announced in March due to bureaucratic errors, many pensioners who were eligible for NHS support paid care fees. Russell Hall, adviser at Almary Green said: "It is unfair that so many individuals have been forced to sell their homes to pay for care that should have been free on the NHS due to mistakes by officials." Almary Green has urged affected individuals, who paid care fees between 1 April 2004 to 31 March 2011, to register a claim before 30 September 2012, or it will be lost. A recent report by law firm Farley Dwek found up to 100,000 pensioners were ...