Tory social care plans fail to tackle basic funding challenge, IFS says

Institute for Fiscal Studies warns of less generous system, as Labour says 'savage attack' on pensioners could sway election

Theresa May's flagship manifesto proposal to shake up the funding of social care for older people has come under fire from the independent Institute for Fiscal Studies and opposition parties.

The IFS warned on Friday that the complex new system outlined in the Conservative party's manifesto, which would force more elderly people to pay for their own care, "makes no attempt to deal with the fundamental challenge of social care funding".

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