Generation rent could lead to benefits ‘explosion’
Daily Telegraph, June 27th, 2012
Amid growing concern about ‘generation rent’, what will Housing Benefit for pensioners cost the Exchequer in future?
Tomorrow, the Strategic Society Centre is holding a public debate in Parliament with the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Social Care. The event asks the question fundamental to the ongoing debate around how to pay for care: can the Treasury combine deficit reduction with reform of social care funding?
Wednesday saw many in the social policy world left blind-sided by the announcement from the Sun newspaper that it would henceforth be campaigning for the means testing of currently universal Winter Fuel Payments.