Andrew Dilnot offers a clever solution to a deeply embedded problem, but…
One, it does not apply to Northern Ireland, and two the costs attached may prevent the current Lib Dem Conservative coalition from bring it in… So what’s the problem? In an unwieldly phrase: the under regulated economic burden of long term illness falling directly upon the personal estate of those affected. Emma Stone at the Rowntree Foundation which commissioned the report: The big surprise in today’s report is the extended means test for residential (not home-based) care. In 2007, JRF …