Scottish Care leader s plea to end dementia tax heraldscotland.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from heraldscotland.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Care homes Scotland: Dementia tax could be scrapped as main parties back campaign heraldscotland.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from heraldscotland.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
A CONTROVERSIAL “dementia tax” that penalises self-funding care home residents in the final years of their lives is one step closer to ending following a campaign by The Herald and Alzheimer Scotland that has received cross-party support. The SNP yesterday pledged, if it is re-elected to government, to take forward the recommendations of a major, independent review of adult social care which calls for an almost doubling in free personal and nursing allowances. Scottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross has also backed the move and with Labour, LibDems and the Greens adding their support, the increase is almost certainly expected to be ratified at Holyrood.