The government has decided to ditch most of the recommendations for funding long-term social care made by its adviser, the distinguished economist Andrew Dilnot. Instead, its progress report on social care funding reform proposes that people whose money is tied up in illiquid assets such as property should borrow from the government, repaying the money from their estates after they die...

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