National Care Service Commission
Published / Last Updated on 17/04/2010
National Care Service Commission
by Ashley Clark, Director
In order to establish a fair and sustainable way to fund social care, the Government is setting up a National Care Service Commission. Funding will apparently carry a compulsory levy for all.
Mr Hope said: “Everyone will pay into it in a fair way and in return everyone will then have peace of mind that their savings and homes will be protected from high care costs. The whole of society will benefit and the National Care Service will support individuals and families for generations to come. We must find a fair way of funding the National Care Service. The stakes are very high. That’s why we must have a clear consensus. We are setting up a commission to tell us what would be a fair way for everyone to pay into this new system”.
The White Paper says the National Care Service Commission will take into consideration people’s ability to pay, intergenerational fairness, the potential impacts on people preparing for their retirement and whether people should save for their care over their whole lifetime or contribute at the end of their life.
If the commission’s recommendations to ministers are accepted, they will be implemented in the parliament after next.
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