The governments long-awaited social care plan faces being delayed until the Autumn amid a backlash at claims Boris Johnson will fund the costs by hiking national insurance. The Treasury said it is 'committed to bringing forward a long-term plan to reform the social care system and we will set out proposals in due course'. Paul Johnson, head of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, told The Times: 'Funding social care just from national insurance would be very inequitable. Former Cabinet minister Jeremy Hunt has proposed a 'health and social care levy' of one per cent of incomes to help fix the care system in England. 'The attraction of a health and social care levy is it would fund the NHS backlog in the short term and desperately needed improvements in the social care system in the medium and longer term,' he wrote on Twitter.

Source: Daily Mail July 20, 2021 07:52 UTC