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Article: Sturgeon pledges funds for free personal care for elderly
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- Evening News - Scotland
- Article date:
- June 14, 2007
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SNP Health Secretary Nicola Sturgeon today pledged extra funding
for free personal care for pensioners.
The payments, which have remained static at GBP 145 a week since
they were introduced in 2002, will now be increased in line with
inflation every year.
And Lord Sutherland - the man whose report first recommended free
personal care - is to chair an independent review into how the system
is working.
Ms Sturgeon, who was making an announcement to MSPs this
afternoon, was also expected to highlight the issue of the estimated
GBP 30 million a year in UK-funded attendance allowance payments lost
to Scotland when free personal care was brought in.
The SNP signalled during the election it ...