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• Decade of social care cuts in UK leaves many elderly £1,000 worse off

  28-03-2021 12:00
  
  Charity condemns ‘miserly’ failure to raise free care income thresholds set in 2011A decade of real-terms cuts means the tests deciding who receives state-funded adult care are less generous than nearly a quarter of a century ago, with other cuts leaving some care users more than £1,000 a year worse off, the Observer can reveal.The government has frozen the thresholds on who qualifies for state-funded care for 11 consecutive years, and the guaranteed minimum income levels for c
  
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• Decade of social care cuts in England leaves many elderly £1,000 worse off

  28-03-2021 12:00
  
  Charity condemns ‘miserly’ failure to raise free care income thresholds set in 2011A decade of real-terms cuts means the tests deciding who receives state-funded adult care are less generous than nearly a quarter of a century ago, with other cuts leaving some care users more than £1,000 a year worse off, the Observer can reveal.The government has frozen the thresholds on who qualifies for state-funded care for 11 consecutive years, and the guaranteed minimum income levels for c
  
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