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You forgot the other changes. The cap for those in residential care is/was suggested to go from c.£20k to £100k, and then there was the "u-turn" of a lifetime cap.The difference with what happens now and what the tories are proposing is that those who have care provided in their own homes will also have to use the money from their house to pay for their care. At the moment it is only the couple of hundred thousand who go into residential care affected, with this proposal it will also affect the 5 or so million who stay at home.
I don't offer an opinion on whether it's a good or bad thing, I just wish that people wouldn't say there is no difference from what happens now and this proposal when there clearly is.
The net result would be that many of both those with and without their own homes would end up being much more expensive overall for local authorities, to the benefit of those who inherit the residue of their estates.
Again, no comment on whether that's positive or negative...0
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