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Damian Green suggests modelling social care provision on state pension.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/...-state-pension

Social care provision should be modelled on the state pension, with taxpayers funding a flat-rate “universal care entitlement”, which patients could supplement from their own funds, according to former Conservative cabinet minister Damian Green.

Under the plans, some patients could also buy an insurance-style “care supplement”, to fund a higher standard of provision, perhaps by releasing part of the value of their property.

But the government has repeatedly delayed publishing a long-promised green paper on a new long-term funding model, fearing a backlash such as that following the announcement in the party’s 2017 general election manifesto of what became known as the “dementia tax”.