Location: Washington state
I’m the power of attorney for my elderly father, who lives in an adult family home funded by state long term care funds. He keeps signing up for magazines, and then hides the bills, and he gets collections statements for a few hundred dollars a couple of times a year.
I used to pay them off using his small amount of savings, but now that savings is gone. Can I just ignore the debt and let it pile up? Honestly, he’ll be dead in a few years and it seems like it’s not worth it to worry about these debts.
I don’t think there’s a way for him to lose his long term care funding because of debt, but are there other bad outcomes of doing this that I’m not aware of?
How can I stop him from accruing new debt? He does it secretly and denies any part in it when I talk to him about it.
Submitted November 02, 2018 at 08:51AM by pegsypoo https://ift.tt/2qqFfkC
