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A better plan for funding social care
Mark Littlewood
The Times
The current government deserves credit for tackling the social-care funding crisis, says Mark Littlewood. However, raising national insurance (NI) on workers to pay for the current generation of the elderly by placing a “serious financial burden” on the relatively young (who are less likely to vote Conservative) is a political rather than sensible solution. In the past 25 years, pensioners’ households have seen their disposable incomes double. The average wealth held
