Mother in Nursing Home

[oggleby]

Mum has been in a nursing home for just over 5 years now.
No local home would take her and she had to be placed in a home 25 miles away.
I am a pensioner and have visited her most days.
She has full NHS funding.
My car has now done 108,000 miles mainly as a result of these visits and other running about for Mum. I have been advised it will need some expensive repairs to get it through the next MOT if it continues to do similar mileage. It was new when my mother went into the home.
Mum's money is mounting up at a rate of £1,500 per month as she does not have to pay any fees.
I have lasting Power of Attorney.
I have asked a solicitor, Citizens Advice Bureau and the Court of Protection if it would be OK to use some of Mum's money to purchase a new car. They have all replied not normally but this is an extreme situation and it ''Should'' be OK.
They all say they have never encountered this situation before.
I am a little worried about the word ''should''.
As I am a pensioner I will not be able to visit her so much if I can not use some of her money towards a new car and I do not want to stop these visits just to inherit more money. I am the sole beneficiary of her will.
Has anybody been in this situation and used some of their parents money to purchase a new car?.
Normally a person would only live for 15 months in Mum's state so as people have said this is extreme.

[factor-fiction]

Hi janezz- I thought it was oggleby's mother this thread was about.

[Janezz9]

Hi factor30

I think the Salesman's eyebrows were raised a bit because he had never come accross a 5 year old Honda Jazz with such a high mileage.

[EcclesCake]

Do check your log in details before posting.

Trivial errors can be most embarrassing.......

[jackthehat]

Take aim at foot..........[i]fire![/i] :o)

[sherrardk]

I'm confused - are oggleby and janezz9 the same person? It's just that at 20.02 Janezz, not oggleby, answered tilly's question.

[factor-fiction]

So have you and oggleby have both just bought a Honda Jazz from the same salesman?

[cathfromsaron]

apologies, i meant the eligibility to social security benefits she gets will be affected by any savings NOT that the provision of care will be!

[Tilly2]

Am I allowed to be frank on here?

[EcclesCake]

Go for it Tilly.....

[jackthehat]

You can be Frank, Tilly..........after all, Jane is being oggleby.......LoL

[ladybirder]

A Honda Jazz will go on forever. Well nearly.

[vodkancoke]

I wonder h(ow l)ong this post will stay?

[Tilly2]

As someone who genuinely has a parent in a care home and is finding the situation very difficult at the moment, I take great exception to someone wasting people's time and efforts by asking what increasingly looks like a spurious question.

[factor-fiction]

I can see your point, Tilly2. It has been going on for months on similar themes. Some posters must have been found out because they have been suspended, and others have not posted for a while, sometimes after slipping up. But it's easy for them to return under a new name. There is an argument that it allows debate on an important topic and some may benefit from it, but like you I feel uneasy about it. But it's up to the Ed.