Definition
When the value of a person’s main or only home is not included in a financial assessment to calculate how much the person can afford to pay towards the cost of their care and support.
The value of the person’s main or only home will be disregarded if:
a) the person is not living in a care home, or
b) the person is living in a care home on a temporary basis and intends to either return to their home, or sell their home to move to somewhere more suitable, or
c) the person no longer lives in the home but someone else still lives there and it is that person’s main or only home, for example the person’s partner, parent, child or another relative who is aged 60 or over, or who is incapacitated.