{"id":278307,"date":"2026-02-03T09:56:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T09:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/278307\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T09:56:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T09:56:11","slug":"fair-deal-reform-families-to-get-extra-six-months-to-repay-care-costs-after-residents-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/278307\/","title":{"rendered":"Fair Deal reform: families to get extra six months to repay care costs after resident\u2019s death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Current deadline is 12 months before interest kicks in\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Stock image. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/bcb11950-f415-4c0c-b720-0b2215ef181c.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Stock image. Photo: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Families of Fair Deal residents are to be given an extra six months to pay outstanding bills due to the State to cover the cost of nursing-home care after their loved one dies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Currently the remaining financial contribution, running in to tens of thousands of euro in some cases, is due within 12 months of the nursing-home resident\u2019s date of death. This will be extended by a further six months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Current deadline is 12 months before interest kicks in Stock image. Photo: Getty Families of Fair Deal residents&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278308,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4593,42,807,3662,2120,1421,43,11522,70,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-278307","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-eilish-oregan","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-housing","11":"tag-housing-crisis","12":"tag-hse","13":"tag-jennifer-carroll-macneill","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-revenue-commissioners","16":"tag-simon-harris","17":"tag-top-news","18":"tag-top-stories","19":"tag-topnews","20":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}