One month after the Coalition’s ”˜mid-term review’ sidestepped a pledge to cap social care funding, it appears the Government are finally willing to show their hand.
Today’s announcement will impose a limit of £75,000 on the amount that individuals will have to pay towards their own care ”“ after which point, the state will cover further costs.
Demos analysis shows a cap set at that level is miserly, helping only 16% of older people.
However, there remains another significant problem – one that risks further alienating the kind of middle class families already reeling from having their child benefit cut and marriage tax break postponed. The scheme contains a hidden penalty for couples, and for their children.
Read it all.
(Telegraph) Elderly care: the Government is punishing couples again
One month after the Coalition’s ”˜mid-term review’ sidestepped a pledge to cap social care funding, it appears the Government are finally willing to show their hand.
Today’s announcement will impose a limit of £75,000 on the amount that individuals will have to pay towards their own care ”“ after which point, the state will cover further costs.
Demos analysis shows a cap set at that level is miserly, helping only 16% of older people.
However, there remains another significant problem – one that risks further alienating the kind of middle class families already reeling from having their child benefit cut and marriage tax break postponed. The scheme contains a hidden penalty for couples, and for their children.
Read it all.