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Damian Green suggests modelling social care provision on state pension

Proposals including fuel allowance tax and surcharges labelled ‘a tax on getting old’ by opposition

Social care provision should be modelled on the state pension, with taxpayers funding a flat-rate “universal care entitlement”, which patients could supplement from their own funds, according to former Conservative cabinet minister Damian Green.

In a report published by free market thinktank the Centre for Policy Studies, Green argues that current social care provision is patchy and inadequate, and the government should be spending an additional £2.5bn on it each year.

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from The Guardian http://bit.ly/2L5s71w

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