MSE News: £35,000 elderly care cost cap urged
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"The Dilnot commission urges the Government to cap lifetime contributions to social care costs at £35,000"
"The Dilnot commission urges the Government to cap lifetime contributions to social care costs at £35,000"
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They are talking about increasing taxes on pensioners to pay for the cost of this cap.
Surely a cap would only benefit those who are currently paying more than £35,000 and taxes would hit all pensioners including the lower earning pensioners?
Isnt' this another transfer of cost from rich to poor?
Taxing 9 in 10 pensioners to fund the care of the 1 in 10 that will need it (at the moment) would be quite a stunt to pull off.
I am somewhat confused by the whole.
Does it mean in effect we have to pay up to £35,000 for what is in effect an insurance policy ?
To me it looks like Labour's "death tax" in another guise.
Strange how we can just afford another £38 Million for Ethiopia ????
Then, after people from England have paid their 35K, councils will require people to move from reasonable private care homes to council run/funded nursing/care homes for which they will charge the full £10K hotel costs.
Judging by the council homes I have been into (admittedly only E.Mods and Yorks), I wouldn't wish my worst enemy to be incarcerated in one. And, if you have still got your marbles when you go in it would be, again in my opinion, a living hell.
I suspect that the parliamentary nursing home is somewhat plusher - house of lords anyone?
I started to read all the options and within a minute was in serious risk of disappearing in a flurry of total confusion. Nothing is ever straighforward is it?