Man deprived of free social care after row over gambling debt around £98,000 – Pontefract and Castleford Express

The man inherited 98,000 after a home he jointly owned, but did not live in was sold in 2018, a report by the Local Government Ombudsman revealed. Within weeks he’d used used the cash to settle a debt he’d built up abroad.

He had been receiving free social care from Wakefield Council for five years until that point, but had not originally told them about the property, the report said.

He has now lost an appeal against the council’s decision to withdraw free social care, which was made on the basis he had more than 23,250 – the threshold at which someone must pay for their own care.