Sir Nicholas Soames believes everybody over 40 should have to pay into a national insurance schemeA leading Tory has called for a ring-fenced tax on the over-40s to pay for elderly care. Sir Nicholas Soames believes everybody over 40 should have to pay into a national insurance scheme, with the funds raised being used solely to meet the costs of care for the elderly. Sir Nicholas said: ‘Every day I see families who are desperately anxious about the provision of care for their elderly relatives. It isn’t good enough for this to go on and on.’He claimed the whole system of adult social care was ‘creaking at the seams’, adding that the social care crisis is the UK’s ‘greatest single problem outside Brexit’. In a parliamentary question, the Mid Sussex MP said that in Japan, a compulsory insurance scheme for over-40s to fund social care ‘commands near universal support and seems to work very well’.

Source: Daily Mail December 31, 2017 01:41 UTC