Schedule 2 - Minor and consequential amendments
State Pension Credit Bill [Lords]
4:00 pm
Professor Steve Webb (Northavon, Liberal Democrat)
I am somewhat heartened by the Minister's response. I hesitate to nit-pick, but the anomaly whereby someone with fewer savings ends up with fewer savings credit than someone with more savings is precisely the same anomaly outside residential care as inside it. It is not anomalous at all; it is the point of the scheme, so it is not a fundamental obstacle. If I have understood the hon. Lady correctly, the Department of Health will attempt to ensure that the goal of savings credit in rewarding those who saved will also apply to people in residential care, so it will not all be swiped away.