to come up with proposals. they included capping total care costs at £35,000, with the state paying for everything after that point. and raising the threshold for state support to £100,000 in assets. but plans to implement these proposals were delayed and then dropped by subsequent leaders. our social affairs correspondent alison holt is here. lots of focus on funding today, but wider issues at stake? you are right. the focus has been on how it is paid for, but we need to know what it is we are meant to be paying for. the idea of the cap, which was outlined as the favourite option, the expected option, the big question will be, where is that cap set 5 there have been arguments about a threshold of 50,000, we hear about a threshold of 50,000, we hear about 80,000 also being put forward. that seems to be where the smart money is at the moment. these are the details we need to know, but when we are talking about a cap on costs, it is care cost, so if you
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