Submitted on Friday 22nd April 2016
Published on Monday 25th April 2016
Current status: Closed
Closed: Tuesday 25th October 2016
Signatures: 25
Tagged with
income tax ~ Law ~ Money ~ Pensions ~ Tax
Give 100% tax relief on pensions when care home costs exceed the pension income.
My elderly mother-in-law has Alzheimers Dementia and lives in a care home. Total pension income is around £16K PA. Total care home costs are £33K and rising. Why is it necessary to pay several thousand pounds income tax which erodes the reserves faster and will lead to her needing government help?
There was a plan to cap the care costs but that has now been scrapped. In any case it was not a true and honest capping but a sneaky way to make political capital out of addressing care costs without actually spending any money. It would have benefited only a tiny minority. To allow large corporates to pay paltry amounts of tax whilst levying income tax on pensions paid to paupers is morally and ethically wrong and we should address this totally unjust state of affairs.
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