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Community Care
SEPTEMBER 28, 2022
To manage budgets, some social workers had stopped using their car for personal purposes, cut down on groceries, heating or electricity use or, in a few cases, pulled out of their pension scheme. I am having to make adjustments to my food shopping and leisure opportunities to ensure I have enough money to pay for electricity and gas.”.
The Guardian
NOVEMBER 7, 2023
Rowan Adams responds to Polly Toynbee’s suggestion that ‘the money is right there for the taking, in wealthy pensioners’ assets’ Polly Toynbee says that to pay for pensions and care, “the money is right there for the taking, in wealthy pensioners’ assets” and that “one in five over-65s live in households with assets worth more than £1m” ( During Covid, (..)
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Community Care
NOVEMBER 18, 2021
It has now been revealed that the poorest pensioners will have to pay even more, something Andrew Dilnot – who proposed the cap – explicitly ruled out because it was so unfair. It finds savings exclusively from the less well off group.”
The Guardian
AUGUST 9, 2022
Liz Truss stumbled badly by telling the Financial Times she would only help them “in a Conservative way” with tax cuts not “handouts”, her gofers explaining she is “enabling people to keep more of the money that they earn”. No use now saying she was “ misrepresented ” yet again: she’s been panicked into promising her own emergency budget.
Community Care
SEPTEMBER 7, 2022
Coffey, the work and pensions secretary since 2019, will take responsibility for one of the three priorities Truss articulated for her premiership in her opening speech yesterday : putting the NHS on a “firm footing” Social care one of four priorities for Coffey.
Social Work Haven
SEPTEMBER 17, 2021
Reference must be made to the Mental Capacity Act 2005, Sections 1–4 1 Who manages the money in your household? 3 Do you have any difficulties in taking your money out of the bank? 5 Do you need any help with your money? 6 Does anyone help you with your money? 14 Does anyone owe you money?
Beautiful Voyager
JULY 5, 2023
I have rarely worked in this century, but due to the Disability Support Pension the government gave me when I was 44 I have had an income. Myself, I feel that approaching 60 without any money or security is scary. I became a morning drinker in my thirties. Q: What about when you got sober? What finally helped you get sober?
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