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Five costed reforms to long-term care funding
- Author:
- HIRSCH Donald
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 8p.
- Place of publication:
- York
As part of its Policy and Practice Development Programme on Long-term Care, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation asked William Laing of Laing and Buisson to estimate the cost of a range of policy changes. This document gives a summary of these costings and how to interpret them. The data behind these calculations is reproduced in a spreadsheet available alongside this paper. The context of these costings is given in JRF’s Foundations document, Paying for long-term care: moving forward, published in April 2006, which presents the programme conclusions and options for reform. These costings are all illustrative rather than precise calculations of what a particular policy would cost. The main objective is to show the order of magnitude of the cost of various changes, in order to open up discussion of the desirability of these options.
Facing the cost of long-term care: towards a sustainable funding system
- Author:
- HIRSCH Donald
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 38p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- York
Over the past decade it has become ever clearer that the UK lacks an adequate, coherent and fair basis for paying for long-term care for older people. As a result, services are already under strain, not all needs are being met, and all are ill-prepared to meet future challenges as the population continues to age. This study brings together evidence and discussions assembled by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. It identifies some key challenges that need addressing in order to start moving towards a fairer, more rational and adequate system of funding It deliberately avoids proposing a radical redesign of the whole system, though there is a case for that. Rather it provides a platform for sensible discussion of how to design improvements in the funding system.
Funding care: can each generation pay its fair share?
- Authors:
- HIRSCH Donald, SPIERS Philip
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 7p.
- Place of publication:
- York
There is now wide agreement, accepted by government, that the present system of paying for care needs replacing. The big sticking point is finding extra funding which both covers the growing needs of an ageing population and shares the cost fairly between generations. A new settlement needs to be fair, transparent and sustainable. This viewpoint proposes a two-track approach where each generation contributes to the costs of its own care in later life. Today’s older people have not put aside funds to cover these costs, but have built up other assets. A first part of the Care Levy taxing these assets at a modest rate on inheritance could meet the funding gap in caring for this generation. Younger people could start to build up funds through additional National Insurance contributions as part of the Care Levy. Each successive age cohort would have the inheritance part of the levy reduced to reflect this, with people aged 30 or less when the scheme was introduced having no levy on inheritance. In addition to these 2 parts of the Care Levy, funding could also come from general taxation and small charges to users. Such a broad sharing of costs among different generations, linked to ability to pay, could be presented as a fair and equitable settlement.