U-Turn on care for elderly
Out with the LibLabCon!!
...It seemed to be a policy, and a promise, set in stone. Now, it appears to be nothing of the sort.
There has been no great Government announcement — in fact, the U-turn has been slipped out in virtual secrecy....
...The Government had promised to ring-fence people’s homes by offering a deferred payment scheme that would allow the state to recover the cost of care (up to a capped level of £72,000) from estates after death....
...However, this may not now be so. The promise of a universal scheme of deferred payments for care, whether residential or in the elderly person’s own home, may be diluted so that homeowners with assets (excluding their house) over £23,500 would be forced to run them down to that level before qualifying for help.
Mr Lamb this week even had the gall to describe such a sum as a ‘vast amount of money’, and that anyone with such assets in the bank must be ‘quite wealthy'
There has been no great Government announcement — in fact, the U-turn has been slipped out in virtual secrecy....
...The Government had promised to ring-fence people’s homes by offering a deferred payment scheme that would allow the state to recover the cost of care (up to a capped level of £72,000) from estates after death....
...However, this may not now be so. The promise of a universal scheme of deferred payments for care, whether residential or in the elderly person’s own home, may be diluted so that homeowners with assets (excluding their house) over £23,500 would be forced to run them down to that level before qualifying for help.
Mr Lamb this week even had the gall to describe such a sum as a ‘vast amount of money’, and that anyone with such assets in the bank must be ‘quite wealthy'
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