Pensioners to pay National Insurance! Shock tax move to fund social care bills
The Government is expected to announce a manifesto-breaking National Insurance increase for 25 million workers next week, to fund social care and reduce NHS waiting lists. Experts say Boris Johnson may spread the burden by forcing pensioners to pay National Insurance as well, in a move that would cause outrage.
The Government is desperately looking at ways of solving the care crisis, and raise funds to reduce the numbers waiting for NHS treatment, now at a record 5.45 million.
This morning it leaked a plan to increase National Insurance (NI) by either one or 1.25 percent for everybody of working age.
This will spark fury because the Conservative Party ruled out raising the rate of National Insurance in its 2019 election manifesto.
Sir Andrew Dilnot, who led a cross-party commission on care funding, has previously suggested making people over retirement age pay NI towards the annual £10billion cost of overhauling the UK’s care system.
Experts say Boris Johnson may now take that option in a move that could hit millions of pensioners.
