Equity
Eamon Holmes - British TV personality - and the smiling face of equity release Back in May, 2015 I wrote about my friend Higgy and the issues he was facing regarding health, money, work and I suppose life itself. Go here. Roll forward six years and things are no better. He is sixty two now. Incredibly, he held a job down for two years - as a low paid carer attending to elderly people in their homes but he lost that job a year ago over some issue with documentation of visits undertaken. In England, the long term unemployed are often pushed into basic jobs by a system that is unwilling to cough up benefits to those who have the capacity to work. It's all much tighter than it used to be and the unemployed are sometimes seen as idle layabouts who in effect are scrounging off the state. That is how Higgy ended up as a carer when arguably he is someone who needs a carer himself. I swear that no cleaning whatsoever has happened in his flat since I used to call in ther...
