By the time she needed to go into a care home in 2014 nearly $330 thousand worth of assets had been gifted.
The 2018 case related to then 80 year old, Gwyneth Broadbent, who over a period of time sold the family home, and holiday home, into family trusts, within the allowable limit of $27 thousand a year. Three years after a landmark case over the impact of gifting on subsidies for long term residential care, a legal expert says the guidelines are still unclear and confusing.
