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Article: DHSS to examine elderly care support options.
- Article from:
- Isle of Man Newspapers (Douglas, England)
- Article date:
- January 17, 2008
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THE DHSS is to examine the costs of setting up a new scheme to pay the costs of residential and nursing care after retirement.
A scheme championed by Peter Karran could see new class of National Insurance contribution set up for people born after 1980 that would pay for a place in a nursing or residential home if needed after retirement.
It is a move that has been introduced successfully in the Channel Islands but support for the idea in Tynwald came as something of a shock for Mr Karran (LibVan, Onchan) who had been resigned to seeing his motion fail.
Mr Karran, who has been campaigning for the proposals since the 1980s, described the issue as ...