Care Fees Solution Still A Mess

Care Fees Solution Still A Mess.

With the deadline for reclaiming all self-funded care fees, if the cause of the need for care was medical and therefore should have been paid for by the NHS, care funding is still firmly on the political agenda.

According to former Lib Dem minister Paul Burstow, the Treasury is to blame for a failure to reform care funding in England.  Care groups have backed a proposal by the Dilnot Commission that the state should cover elderly and disable people’s care costs over £35,000, but the Treasury have not yet committed to finding the money to pay for it.

The Dilnot package would cost the Treasury nearly £2bn a year and the government is expected to include its plans on paying for the cost of care in the next spending review, to begin in 2013.

According to a coalition spokesman, the Treasury has played a big part in getting Dilnot back onto the agenda, not least by working to ensure we have the sustainable public finances that are necessary if it is to be delivered.