Cap on care costs: government change reducing benefit for less wealthy becomes law – Community Care

Why does increased costs have to always fall on the less wealthy and in poorer regions who can least afford it. Here we have care costs, but there are many others, including the NI increase, this could, in some respects be compensated in increased benefits, but they are either not being increased or increased anywhere near in-line with inflation. Are the less wealthy and in poorer regions being…

Tory MPs vote through care cap ‘catastrophe’ for poor Brits despite revolt – Mirror Online

Many governments both Tory and Labour have promised to help and improve social care funding, but none have done so except this one. However, in doing so they have got it seriously wrong.   Social care is just as important as the NHS and n=both need to work in tandem with each other, in fact ideally, they should be manged under the same organisation. This would reduce many of the duplications of…

Care cap: government change leaves less well-off at risk of ‘catastrophic’ bills, analysis finds – Community Care

To ensure people with less wealth and in poorer regions are not disadvantaged would it not be fairer to only take earned income into account, rather than welfare benefits people receive or remove the personal contribution altogether.   Source: Care cap: government change leaves less well-off at risk of ‘catastrophic’ bills, analysis finds – Community Care