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Middle-class pensioners to lose benefits under Tory

plan to fund social care

Theresa May will launch the Tory manifesto on Thursday CREDIT: AFP

By Gordon Rayner, POLITICAL EDITOR and Steven Swinford, DEPUTY POLITICAL EDITOR
17 MAY 2017 10:32PM

M
iddle-classpensioners are to lose benefits under Conservative (http://www.telegraph.co.uk
/conservative-party/) plans to fund social care, Theresa May will

announce on Thursday.

The Conservative manifesto will set out plans to begin means-testing winter fuel payments and to
charge more people who currently receive free care in their own home.

The money saved from means-testing the annual heating handout, worth up to 300, will be used
to help close the 2.8billion social care funding gap.

The Conservatives will also pass legislation to ensure nobody has to sell their home to pay for their
care during their lifetime, and new rules will allow pensioners needing nursing home treatment to
keep more of their assets.

The flagship policy marks a gamble as it risks angering core older Tory supporters. David
Cameron repeatedly pledged to maintain universal pensioner benefits, but Mrs Mays team
believes that pensioners can no longer be fully protected from austerity.

On Wednesdayit was unclear whether the Prime Minister would also abandon the so-called
triple-lock, which guarantees a rise in the state pension every year.

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