Nursing home payoffs generate high number of appeals

NEARLY one in four appeals over repayments for illegal nursing home fees are resulting in higher amounts being paid out to claimants.

Over €185 million has been repaid to nursing home residents and their kin under a scheme to compensate long-term residents illegally charged by the State.

However, health chiefs were last night accused of trying to save money at the expense of vulnerable elderly people as it is now evident that large numbers of payments are being overturned on appeal.