More than 100 homes a week are being seized from elderly people by councils to pay for their care home fees.
Families have been forced to hand over properties because local authorities are refusing to pay for the care.
The scale of the confiscations – revealed yesterday by a Freedom of Information request – will pile pressure on the Government to help the thousands of families forced to pay ruinous care fees.
The Coalition promised a cap on care costs by 2016, but this will only apply to bills of £72,000 or more.
Up to that point, all those with assets of more than £23,250 are expected to pay their own way – even if that means selling the family home or agreeing to surrender it when their relative dies.
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