Making workers foot the bill for social care and pensions is deeply unfair | Alfie Stirling

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : Replacing existing tax relief on pension contributions with a flat rate of tax could be a better way of requiring a greater contribution from pensioner income, targeted at those who can most afford it.
49% : And by October, 5m households relying on universal credit will face the deepest overnight cut to welfare in UK history.
47% : If you rely on earnings for a living, the government has asked that you contribute an extra 2.5% of your wages towards the costs of social care - ultimately the 1.25 percentage point increase to both employee and employer NICs will each come out of workers' take-home pay.

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