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• The UK social care cap: how will it work and is it fair?

  17-11-2021 21:59
  
  Analysis: what has been announced, what people will pay, and what the experts thinkEngland’s poorest pensioners ‘face same costs as wealthy’ under capThe cap is a lifetime limit of £86,000 on how much individuals will have to pay towards their care costs. First proposed more than a decade ago by the economist Sir Andrew Dilnot in a government-commissioned review, it is designed to allow individuals hit by hefty care costs to pass on more of their assets to their children,
  
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• The England social care cap: how will it work and is it fair?

  17-11-2021 21:59
  
  Analysis: what has been announced, what people will pay, and what the experts thinkSocial care cap could expose poorer homeowners to ‘catastrophic’ costsThe cap is a lifetime limit of £86,000 on how much individuals will have to pay towards their care costs. First proposed more than a decade ago by the economist Sir Andrew Dilnot in a government-commissioned review, it is designed to allow individuals hit by hefty care costs to pass on more of their assets to their children, in
  
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• Social care cap could expose poorer homeowners to ‘catastrophic’ costs

  17-11-2021 21:57
  
  Boris Johnson warned ‘red wall’ MPs could revolt when cap on home and care costs put to a voteThe UK social care cap: how will it work and is it fair?Tens of thousands of England’s poorest pensioners face paying the same for their old age care as wealthier people after the government published details of the new cap on home and care costs.The move will save the government hundreds of millions of pounds but leave many poorer homeowners exposed to “catastrophic costs”
  
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• England’s poorest pensioners ‘face same costs as wealthy’ under social care cap

  17-11-2021 21:57
  
  Boris Johnson warned ‘red wall’ MPs could revolt when cap on home and care costs put to a voteThe UK social care cap: how will it work and is it fair?Tens of thousands of England’s poorest pensioners face paying the same for their old age care as wealthier people after the government published details of the new cap on home and care costs.The move is set to save the government hundreds of millions of pounds but leave many poorer homeowners exposed to “catastrophic costs&r
  
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• Michael Shamash obituary

  17-11-2021 18:28
  
  Although small in stature, my friend Michael Shamash, who has died aged 63, had a very big presence in the lives of many who knew him. Michael had an aptitude for building lasting friendships, whether through chairing the Restricted Growth Association (2003-07), lecturing on critical disability studies at the University of Middlesex, his directorship of the disability advocacy organisation Shaping Our Lives (2018-21), or through his work in social care and his wide range of interests.I met Mike
  
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• ‘Carers enable us to live, not just exist’: a personal care employer on life without EU workers

  17-11-2021 11:00
  
  Katy Etherington’s personal assistants help her live independently and run a website matching up disabled people with PAs. But shortages are so acute some disabled people may be forced into residential care, she says.Katy Etherington runs a website, PA Pool, that matches disabled people with personal assistants (PAs). “Last year, we had 460 PAs join from Poland, and this year we’ve only had 36,” she says. “It’s a serious problem.”Before Brexit, most of t
  
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