Power of Attorney Refund

We have each named the other, then our children, only one person needed to sign for anything.

We have registered ours so they are ready for immediate use, I think that cost us about £50 each, and our solicitor has certified copies that can be shown as required. Ours somehow temporarily got lost in our solicitor's office for several months, so they waived their own fee.

The ones for my mum were a lot more than that, which is I assume the reason for the rebate. I would think the reduction in cost is because they want to encourage folk to set them up.

Very wise only needing one to sign. I think that would have been the problem with setting up a new account. They would not have allowed internet access if two attorneys needed to sign. Also if my sister had been an Attorney, that would have caused problems in opening a UK account, as she lives abroad.

It is always worth immediately registering, otherwise if one of your witnesses dies you have to start again. (In England anyway) Once registered it has no affect.

The cost in Scotland to register a POA is now £75, so it has gone up a bit, we did ours about 4-5 years back.

We have done both Financial and Welfare ones, no extra cost if done together.  

There is a standard text here you can use, but we were able to remove any bits we did not want included.

We have 3 of us that are Mum's POA, myself, my sister and my husband as he is also the executor of her will.

With us travelling for half of the year it made sense for both my sister and I to have POA, she keeps the bank card for Mum's current account while we have the cheque books (any of the 3 can sign a cheque) my husband does the online banking. The only thing with the online is you need the card + card reader if paying something that has not already been set up. Once this had all been done its not been a problem. 

Having the POA set up before Mum's dementia got bad has made life so much easier having to deal with Social Services, Banks, Care homes, DWP etc.

We haven't done ours yet or will's 

We've got our PofAs under way now. Have always kept our wills up to date, watching the extra distress and paperwork suffered by a bereaved neighbour of ours just now after a spouse refused to make a will has been a reminder about what happens if you don't.

We set up PofA for our children to operate and help us in the future if necessary. However that was in the days of the Enduring PofA, and this has now changed to Lasting PofA. I seems a lot of expense to have to bin the EPA's and start all over again setting up LPA's   Anyone out there with the old EPA's and with the same predicament as me ?

My parents set up PoA a couple of years ago - but only the financial one.   This has proved a problem during last year as my father fell seriously ill (has been in ill-health a long time) and whilst in ITU, we had to have the 'conversation'.   Mum was shocked to find that she had no say in his care at all as she wasn't the patient and as his wife without PoA could not make decisions on his behalf.   These decisions were then made by the doctors treating him and ended with a DNR which she didn't agree with.    Thankfully he recovered but he still won't consider the medical PoA as feel it is unnecessary despite the stress and upset not having one caused. 

We are only just in our 50's but will make one as soon as is practicable as I don't want the same to happen to us.

Our PofAs will name each other firstly and then our children. We have decided not to do the medical bit as I have found that sharing a PofA with my sister for our Mum we have also been able to make medical decisions jointly with those involved in Mum's care in a practical manner. There is also the procedure where you set down your own wishes for medical intervention and this was done my mother (in her present care home,) it's called an advance statement. The main thing is to get these things done whilst you are still capable of making decisions.

Nuggy if you look on the GOV.UK web site it gives help and guidelines on the use EPAs as well as the newer LPAs etc. 

Thanks brue. I need to study and consider the value of starting the procedure again whilst still able. as a belt and braces cover all. The finance would be duplication but the welfare would be additional. I think one advantage would be that an LPA would be registered as part of the arranging and would be immediately available at short notice.

Thanks SteveL for that. My wife and I set up 2 EPA's in 2015 and it looks like we should get back about £45 each. Filling the claims form in was so easy, both done in 8 minutes.