• Fairer ways to fix funding for the NHS and social care | Letters

    Fairer ways to fix funding for the NHS and social care | Letters
    The government’s proposed increase in national insurance contributions will hit the poorest the hardest, say readersRaising the rate of national insurance contributions (NICs) by 1.25 percentage points across the board is an unnecessary way to fund health and social care spending (Boris Johnson ‘fully committed’ to national insurance rise, 28 January). Instead, billions of pounds could be raised by levelling up the current rate of 2% paid on employee annual earnings above &poun

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