You said;That only means the capital of a trust fund is not taken into account when you are assessed for state benefits, or state care, but any money that trust fund generates is.
, has soon as a government department in the UK knows someone has cash it will be taken into account if you try to claim any sort of public funding, a residential placement would be means tested.''
Sorry but that's not correct. The whole point of the 'Trust' is that the money ( capital and assets) is held for someone but it does NOT belong to them. Therefore benefits and entitlement from Local Authority are not affected.
Anyway. Sorry to be pernickety
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Who owns the assets in a Discretionary Trust?
Due to the nature of a Discretionary Trust, the Trust assets cannot be considered to belong to any person, even if in practical terms they are only being used to benefit one person. For that reason, any assets left or accumulated in a Discretionary Trust would not affect a beneficiary’s eligibility for means-tested benefits.
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