Lost inheritance

tHe Millennials are looking forward to a £200,000 inheritance (Mail).

I would be happy to leave my house to my children and grandchildren. However, having seen my mother — aged 93 and with health problems including dementia — have to go into a nursing home, selling her house to pay the £1,400 per week cost, my inheritance is disappearing fast.

an inheritance would have paid off my mortgage and enabled me to retire. Instead, at 65, I will be working for the foreseeable future.

My family better hope that I do not need any care as I get older.

My mother and father worked hard all their life; Dad was the first of his family to own his own home and was so proud.

they would have been better off staying in council accommodation and going onto benefits later in life. then any care they needed would have been paid for by the state.

theresa May can say people should not be having to sell their homes to pay for care, but it is happening every day. What sort of message is this for the next generation?

Maybe the potential house-buying younger generation are thinking: ‘Is it worth paying for something all your life when it can be taken away at the end of it?’ BRENDA BUTLER, Aylesbury, Bucks.