Health written question – answered at on 20 March 2012.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether his Department has considered a cap on lifetime social care payments.
The coalition agreement set out the Government's clear commitment to reforming the system of social care to provide much more control to individuals and their carers, and to ease the cost burden that they and their families face.
This commitment to reform is why we acted quickly to set up the Commission on Funding of Care and Support, which published its report in July 2011.
The Commission recommended a “capped cost model”, where people's lifetime care costs are limited at between £25,000 and £50,000. Once someone has accrued eligible care costs up to this level, the state would cover their remaining care costs.
The Commission's report has formed the basis of Government's recent engagement with stakeholders. This engagement exercise examined the impact of these recommendations, and brought them together with other priorities for reform from across the social care system to look at the trade-offs between them.
When the Commission published its report in July 2011, Government set out their commitment to publish a White Paper on social care and a progress report on funding reform in the spring—a timetable to which we remain committed.
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