Jackie Doyle-Price, social care minister, told a fringe meeting that many older people were \u201csitting in homes that really are too big for their needs\u201d and said the party was still looking to make reforms to the funding of social care.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe reality is that the taxpayer shouldn\u2019t necessarily be propping up people to keep their property and hand it on to their children when they\u2019re generating massive care needs,\u201d she told the Social Market Foundation fringe in footage released by the Labour party.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve got to a stage where people feel that they are the custodian of an asset to give to their offspring \u2026 They shouldn\u2019t be seen as that.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are very much looking at, when the review comes up, we will be looking at the whole issue of caps and floors,\u201d she added, later in the same meeting.<\/p>\n
Doyle-Price said the younger generation should not be expected to fund care for pensioners when there were already huge pressures on their finances.<\/p>\n
\u201cThose of us who are fortunate to have gone through university without paying anything, fortunate enough to have then bought our own homes, have been able to build up a level of wealth,\u201d said the MP for Thurrock.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut actually, current people coming through the universities, who are going to be funding, looking after us after we have retired, have not had those advantages, and fundamentally it\u2019s unfair to expect them to pay their own taxes to deal with that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, said it was \u201cappalling\u201d the Conservatives still expected people with dementia to sell their homes to pay for care.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe idea of a \u2018dementia tax\u2019 was rightly rejected by the public during the general election,\u201d Corbyn said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt can\u2019t be right that if you have a heart condition you\u2019re treated on the NHS but if you have dementia you have to pay with your home.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is further proof that the Conservatives are yesterday\u2019s party, with no plan to fix our country\u2019s problems.\u201d<\/p>\n
The so-called \u201cdementia tax\u201d in the Conservative manifesto caused controversy immediately when the party committed to \u201cmeans-testing for domiciliary care\u201d including \u201cthe value of the family home along with other assets and income\u201d and separately \u201ca single capital floor, set at \u00a3100,000\u201d so that \u201cpeople will always retain at least \u00a3100,000 of their savings and assets\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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