{"id":55485,"date":"2017-05-20T12:59:17","date_gmt":"2017-05-20T05:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/the-tax-that-pensioners-should-pay-to-fund-care\/"},"modified":"2017-05-20T13:08:56","modified_gmt":"2017-05-20T06:08:56","slug":"the-tax-that-pensioners-should-pay-to-fund-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/the-tax-that-pensioners-should-pay-to-fund-care\/","title":{"rendered":"The tax that pensioners should pay to fund care"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nTheresa May\u2019s plan looks seductive, but a fairer system would see the retired paying national insuranceThere are a lot of comfortably off pensioners. And lots of poor ones. And there are a lot better ways of finding money for elderly care than Theresa May\u2019s manifesto commitment to whipping the houses off people who need care at home.Under the Conservative\u2019s plan, people needing either domiciliary (aka at-home) or residential care will have to pay for everything until the value of their assets, including their home, is down to \u00a3100,000. The Tories promise that no one will be forced to sell their home in their lifetime to pay for care, with the cost instead deferred and taken from their estate after death. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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Theresa May\u2019s plan looks seductive, but a fairer system would see the retired paying national...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-eqV","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8848,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/scrap-triple-lock-that-protects-state-pensions-says-thinktank-chief\/","url_meta":{"origin":55485,"position":0},"title":"Scrap triple lock that protects state pensions, says thinktank chief","date":"October 21, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Paul Johnson, head of the IFS, says today\u2019s pensioners have fared extraordinarily well relative to their predecessorsPensioners have benefited from an \u201camazing\u201d period of rising living standards relative to the rest of society, and the government should scrap its triple lock that protects the value of the state pension,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Property News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":56068,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/labours-finance-tax-will-hit-pensioners-warns-ifs\/","url_meta":{"origin":55485,"position":1},"title":"Labour\u2019s finance tax will hit pensioners, warns IFS\u00a0","date":"May 26, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"\r \r \r Source : telegraph.co.uk\r Read more...Labour\u2019s finance tax will hit pensioners, warns IFS\u00a0","rel":"","context":"In "Property News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":54839,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/city-warns-corbyns-robin-hood-tax-will-hit-pensioners-pockets\/","url_meta":{"origin":55485,"position":2},"title":"City warns Corbyn's 'Robin Hood' tax will hit pensioners' pockets","date":"May 15, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"\r \r \r Source : telegraph.co.uk\r Read more...City warns Corbyn's 'Robin Hood' tax will hit pensioners' pockets","rel":"","context":"In "Property News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":35578,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/autumn-statement-brill-for-builders-perturbing-for-pensioners\/","url_meta":{"origin":55485,"position":3},"title":"Autumn statement: brill for builders, perturbing for pensioners","date":"November 24, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Philip Hammond\u2019s \u00a32.3bn infrastructure fund is a boon for construction workers, but the pensions \u2018triple lock\u2019 may be doomedPhilip Hammond\u2019s first autumn statement has delivered winners and losers. 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