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Re: Government & Post Election Discussion
The Times had an article about it as well - they sound like reasonable propositions to me.
There is a growing need, and it will need to be paid for.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/c...6522591b6d45fb
Quote:
In a report for the Centre for Policy Studies think tank, Mr Green calculated that introducing a free entitlement to basic care at home or in a residential home would cost about £2.5 billion extra a year.
To pay for this he suggested that the winter fuel allowance, a tax-free payment of between £100 and £300, be withdrawn from pensioners who pay higher rate income tax. This would raise about £350 million a year. The rest could be funded with extra money from the Treasury’s spending review or, in the longer term, by imposing an additional national insurance rate of 1 per cent on the over-50s. This would mean that older taxpayers paid an extra £308 a year and would raise £2.4 billion.
The report suggested that a standard entitlement to universal social care would include a set number of hours of care at home per week or a bed in a care home with a minimum level of service, with people able to make top-up payments for extra services.
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