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Caring for our future: progress report on funding reform

This document contains the following information: Caring for our future: progress report on funding reform.

• From: Department of Health and Social Care
• Published: 11 July 2012

This was published under the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

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This document contains the following information: Caring for our future: progress report on funding reform.

The Commission on Funding of Care and Support, chaired by Andrew Dilnot, reported its recommendations in 2011 (ISBN 9780108510847). Two key proposals were: (i) the Government should put a cap on the lifetime care costs that people face, and raise the threshold at which people lose means-tested support; and (ii) there should be universal access to deferred payments for people in residential care.

This Command Paper was laid before Parliament by a Government Minister by Command of Her Majesty. Command Papers are considered by the Government to be of interest to Parliament but are not required to be presented by legislation.

Published 11 July 2012