‘Difficult decisions’ – Burnham looks at new tax on workers to fund social care overhaul

‘Difficult decisions’ – Burnham looks at new tax on workers to fund social care overhaulAndy Burnham has suggested taxes could pay for social care overhaul. Potential tax hikes or spending re-allocations to fund social care would likely not be made until after Casey has published her review, and so decisions could be left to next year’s Budget. ‘National care crisis’: Tax ideas floated in health departmentThe grilling over funding for deep social care reform at the press conference came as it was reported that officials in the health department had considered creating a new levy on top of income tax to fund social care. The Prime Minister had invited both Kemi Badenoch and Sir Ed Davey to meet with him to tackle social care in an attempt to make it a cross-party issue. “Nowhere is that more urgent than social care.”