Firm denies bullying applicants for nursing home repayments

THE firm responsible for administering the nursing home repayment scheme has flatly denied it bullied applicants entitled to payments.

The scheme administrator, KPMG and Mc Cann FitzGerald, said it had taken the proactive step of contacting applicants who had filled in forms incorrectly because it did not wish to further delay the process.

In a statement yesterday, it said reports it was trying to minimise the number of claims were wrong and it was trying to make sure people were not excluded because of a common mistake on their application form.