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Please note, this research is economic garbage.
The U.K. government doesn’t collect anyone’s tax to put aside for the future whether that’s for pensions or social care.
There will be no funding black hole for social care in 2031.
#MMT
The U.K. government doesn’t collect anyone’s tax to put aside for the future whether that’s for pensions or social care.
There will be no funding black hole for social care in 2031.
#MMT
It is a government choice not to fund it today and it will be a government choice whoever is in power to fund it or not in 2031.
The only constraint to the provision of social care services that any future government will face will be a resource one not a financial one.
#MMT
The only constraint to the provision of social care services that any future government will face will be a resource one not a financial one.
#MMT
“Research carried out by pensions and risk consultancy Hymans Robertson suggested a German-style system could raise half of the money needed to plug the £30b-a-year gap in social care funding the U.K. is facing by 2031”
