Financial advice when your partner has cognitive issues post stroke

vanliferforever

My partner had a right sided basal ganglia hemorrhage 2 weeks ago.

His mobility is good but cognitively he's not fairing well

We are buying a property abroad on a pay monthly contract and if we don't keep up payments we lose the house.We live in a van and do not own property .I am dependent on my partner's pension until March when I have a six month work contract.

He is refusing to transfer funds so I can manage our financial affairs.

Any advice please on how to move forward .We are not married and do not have a joint bank acct .

Wibbles

On a similar vein - how does an individual know when they are mentally incompetent enough not to be able to handle their own financial affairs ?

I assume that there is some form of assessment - but is there a "standard" which, once reached - then allows a partner or relative to "take over" ?

Holly_Alumni

That's a really good question @Wibbles. I've done a bit of digging into the PIP markers as I know they look at this, just to give us an idea about how the government guidance works. Might be a helpful guide when thinking about it personally.

Personal Independence Payment - PIP Assessment: Handle money | Turn2us

Wibbles

https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1091865#Comment_1091865

That's extremely vague - isn't it - there needs to be another method ?

The PIP Helper on your link is excellent - compared to others that I have used in the past…