Darren Millar
Commenting on the warning from Age Cymru that thousands of families in Wales risk missing out on reclaiming wrongly paid care home fees because the Welsh Government failed to adequately promote the deadline for claims to the NHS, Darren Millar AM, Shadow Minister for Health, said:
“Awareness of the deadline for reclaiming wrongly paid care home fees from the NHS is very low because of the failure of the Welsh Labour Government to take a lead.
“The 31 July deadline should now be extended by three months to give the thousands of relatives, many of whom are elderly and vulnerable, the opportunity to claim back five figure care home bills they never should have been made to pay.
“More than 80% of continuing care claims have resulted in refunds from the NHS, showing the scale of the wrongly paid fees yet to be claimed by families.
“An extended deadline would give Labour Ministers and Local Health Boards the chance to re-double their efforts and properly publicise how families can have their claims fairly assessed and be appropriately reimbursed.”
