The Chancellor’s Budget announcement that a new single-tier state pension will be introduced early in the next Parliament – above the level of the current means tested Guarantee Credit – represents a personal triumph for pensions minister Steve Webb, and starts the clock ticking to the abolition of means tested Pension Credit.
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Author: James Lloyd, Strategic Society Centre
Publisher: Public Finance
England’s system for funding social care for has long faced calls for reform. This article for Prospect explores the government's proposed limit on how much older people have to pay out for their care. By James Lloyd To read more, click here.
Ten years on from the Commission on Funding of Care and Support (the ‘Dilnot Comission’), the ‘capped cost’ model is again at the centre of debate on how to make England’s system of means tested support for care costs fairer. By James Lloyd The fact such a debate is...
The 2019 election saw the Conservative Party win seats that may define the Government’s attitude to reforming care funding. By James Lloyd The 2019 Conservative election manifesto said little on care funding in England, promising just £1 billion extra each year...
Locked out of home ownership, the state would be left to foot the bill for Generation Rent The Independent, August 2nd , 2016 By Hannah Fearn To read more click here.