Planning for the inevitable
April 11, 2024
The inevitable will happen to all of us and it’s good to get planning and talking about it before we go. The inevitable might be that your attorneys need to act for you or help you during your lifetime or it might be information for your executors when you die. ...
Getting Care At Home
April 4, 2024
So, you’ve decided that the best thing for your loved one (or you) is to get some help with care at home. It could be help with meals, or with personal care, cleaning or companionship, or a mixture of all of these things. If you have more than £23,250 in savin...
How to effectively deal with post
March 28, 2024
Do you find you get post that you don’t deal with? It is very boring after all! You do need to open it so it doesn’t get lost, but you don’t need to deal with it straight away. Here’s our video from last year and three top tips:Open envelopes on the day y...
Tax in retirement
March 21, 2024
HMRC should send you a PAYE coding notice each year, unless they believe that a source of PAYE income is not chargeable to tax, or if you do not have a liability to tax on any PAYE-source income. Being retired doesn’t stop you from being liable for tax or from receiv...
Getting online to make your life easier - part 2
March 14, 2024
Following on from our first ten reasons to learn the internet last week, here are some more reasons to learn the internet, if you want to:Search for recipes to use up food in your fridge or larderCheck the news and weatherCheck your bank statementsIf you’re still driving y...
Getting on line to make your life easier
March 7, 2024
More and more companies are making our lives ‘easier’ by delivering their services online. But it’s only ‘easier’ if you grew up with computers or have used them for your job. If you’re older and you don’t have a device then it’s very annoying and...
Choosing your attorneys
February 29, 2024
Last week we talked about the importance of powers of attorney. So if you have decided you want to make them, you need to think about who might be the best attorneys for you*. Some of the following might help you to decide:They don’t have to be your relat...
Power of Attorney
February 22, 2024
Have you written and registered your power of attorney yet? We have done ours and many people might think we’re too young.But you’re never too young; it doesn’t matter what age you are, if something happens to you and you can’t make decisions, then life can get...
Passports and identity
February 16, 2024
Passports are not just for trips abroad.
They are a very useful piece of ID and, if possible, make sure you keep yours renewed even if you don’t think you’ll be travelling soon.We have seen many cases recently of our clients needing to prove their identity to banks and this is often the only ID that can be acc...
Share the love
February 8, 2024
As it is coming up to St Valentine’s Day
we wanted to remind you to share your love with any older neighbours you may have. Make sure you check on older neighbours regularly, especially if you haven’t seen them for a few days.Check in periodically to see if they need help with anything. This cou...
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