Health Services: Finance

(asked on 19th March 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what evidence his Department used to calculate the total savings an individual can acquire before they are required to self-fund their own care.


Answered by
Helen Whately Portrait
Helen Whately
Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 25th March 2021

The upper capital limit or the level of savings or assets above which an individual is expected to self-fund their care and the lower capital limit or the level of savings and investment above which an individual is expected to make some contribution was set in April 2010 by the previous administration.

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