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Funding care: how can each generation pay its fair share?

This Joseph Rowntree foundation report examines the problem of finding extra funding to pay for care which both covers the growing needs of an ageing population and shares the cost fairly between generations.

This report:

• proposes a phased two-track approach, with an initial charge on inheritance being gradually replaced by funds built up through extra National Insurance paid by younger age cohorts.
• suggests such a broad sharing of costs among different generations, linked to ability to pay, could be presented as a fair and equitable settlement.

What Disability Alliance says

DA believes disabled and older people should receive social care along the same lines as the NHS. Our full position was outlined in our response to the social care reform green paper in 2009 and is online at: www.disabilityalliance.org/r64.htm

More information

• joseph rowntree website

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