Should schemes help members meet the cost of care?

Growing numbers will have to pay for social care in old age

Michael Klimes
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A growing number of people will need a high level of care during their final years and how to fund this has proved a controversial question. The government has delayed the implementation of a cap on social care until April 2020. With the budgets of local government authorities under ever greater constraint, the costs of meeting social care will fall on individuals even more.

One of the key elements of the Care Act was the proposed introduction of a £72,000 cap (in 2016 prices) on the cost of care for people of State Pension Age and over. The cap, which was due to be ef...

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