Charity condemns ‘miserly’ failure to raise free care income thresholds set in 2011
A decade of real-terms cuts means the tests deciding who receives state-funded adult care are less generous than nearly a quarter of a century ago, with other cuts leaving some care users more than £1,000 a year worse off, the Observer can reveal.
The government has frozen the thresholds on who qualifies for state-funded care for 11 consecutive years, and the guaranteed minimum income levels for care users are being frozen for the sixth year. Inflation means these are real-terms cuts.
