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Issue 275
Frozen Thresholds Push More People into Care Self-Funding For 16th Consecutive Year
Tens of thousands more older people across England face having to meet
social care will remain unchanged for the 2026–27 financial year. The upper
the full cost of their residential and nursing care entirely from their own pock-
capital limit — the point above which an individual must fund their own care in
ets, after the government confirmed it will freeze the means-testing thresholds
full — will stay at £23,250, precisely where it was set in 2010. The lower capital
that determine eligibility for state-funded support for the sixteenth year running.
limit, below which a person's savings and assets are disregarded for the pur-
The Department of Health and Social Care announced on 17 February 2026 that the upper and lower capital limits governing access to publicly funded
poses of financial assessment, also remains frozen at £14,250.
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