Care Fees Cap Review

16 February 2013

Care Fees Cap Review

A chief architect of plans to limit the cost of long-term care has criticised ministers for setting the cap so high that thousands of pensioners will have to sell their homes. 

Lord Warner is warning that if a husband and wife both move into care, they could have to pay £150,000 before the state steps in – wiping out almost the entire value of an average house.  The peer sat on the Dilnot Commission, which aimed to safeguard elderly people’s houses by imposing a cap of about £35,000 – after which the state will meet care costs. But ministers are expected to announce next week that they will set the cap much higher than that.

It has been widely reported that the cap could be as high as £75,000.There were rumours yesterday, however, that the final level to be announced on Monday may be lower – £60,000, uprated by inflation in future years.

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