How will you pay £1,000 a week for old-age care?

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How will you pay £1,000 a week for old-age care?
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Proposals to hike taxes for the over 40s for old-age care highlight massive gaps in knowledge and cash

It has been pushed into the political long grass for decades but finally, like so many things in life Covid-19 has made the UK’s broken social care system an urgent problem that needs solving right now.

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