General Article How will you pay £1,000 a week for old-age care?

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Proposals to hike taxes for the over 40s for old-age care highlight massive gaps in knowledge and cash.

By Kate Hughes

It has been pushed into the political long grass for decades but finally, like so many things in life, Covid-19 has made the UK’s broken social care system an urgent problem that needs solving right now.

This week it emerged that the government was considering yet another new approach to the long-term care funding crisis – taxing the over 40s more through the National Insuran...

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