Absolute nonsense, they can swing for it

Thanks this is what I thought (I know Scotland is different but these principles are basically the same)

I'd burn a house down before enriching the tax dodging fooks who run care homes anyway (or at least deplete the entire value through embarrassing litigation) but fook Them 

I think furniture would be chattels, and so part of a person’s estate rather than a jointly owned asset that passes to the spouse through survivorship tbh, but I know naff all about Scottish law.

No this is for what the local authority can strip from a surviving spouse to pay for care home fees

£200k of fees over 2 years 

That’s one hefty bill. 

I know

These guys write their own checks (while aggressively dodging tax through every route possible)

I don't understand why there's no outcry

If everyone wants an NHS and social care system that works, we have to sign up to gladly paying massively more tax across the board.  I'm up for it.  

We might as well just carbon copy Sweden.  Add in the childcare, maternity and paternity leave rights, retirement benefits on top of a joined up social care provision.  I'm sure our kids' generation who can't afford their own place to live will be absolutely fine about picking up the bill, on top of the £2.3trn unfunded public sector pension debt.

Legalisation of euthanasia it is then. 

I’d think if the house was held as joint tenants rather than tenants in common, then on the face of it furniture would also pass by survivorship. Unless someone can prove otherwise. I mean who owns the bed, the lamp, if there are 4 pillows are we saying 2 belong to one and 2 belong to the other and which 2? Need evidence, receipts…and what if one went out to work and money from joint account used? 

Just cut everything in half and give the care home their half pieces Nd say they can keep the money they make from selling them.