Good pension not always enough for a good later life
A good pension is not always enough for a good later life – Money Marketing Column. ( link to pdf )
UK savers casualties of Brexit process
Ros highlights in Actuarial Post magazine that dealing with Brexit has pushed many urgent pension and later life policy reforms onto the back burner – including pensions dashboard and social care funding. ( link to pdf )
Calls for tax rises to pay for social care
Daily Express article carrying Ros’ views on the social care crisis. Calls for tax rises to pay for social care
Damaging plans to force working pensioners to pay new National Insurance charges to cover social care
Financial Adviser article explaining Ros’ views on damaging plans to force working pensioners to pay new National Insurance charges to cover social care
Nurses paid £11,000 to take funding away from dementia patients
Daily Mail article highlighting the injustice of paying nurses £11,000 to take funding away from dementia patients
Nurses paid £11,000 to take funding away from dementia patients
Social Care: Daily Mail article highlighting the injustice of paying nurses £11,000 to take funding away from dementia patients.
Four Seasons debt problems highlight Care Crisis again
Ros’ blog discussing how the Four Seasons healthcare crisis is another symptom of the broken UK social care system – this crisis is real and must be addressed
Incentivising Care Funding – A Social Imperative
Ros gave a keynote speech at the Faculty and Institute of Actuaries Health and Care Conference explaining her views on the social care crisis and the urgency of addressing the lack of social care funding in our ageing population
Hope for care saving incentives
Stock Market Wire carried an article calling for incentives to encourage people to save for social care needs in later life, perhaps alongside or within pensions with specific tax breaks
Let's have new tax incentives for care saving
Ros calls for new incentives to be introduced by the government to encourage people to save for care needs – whether it is via Care ISAs, or using pensions tax free, or other initiatives she calls on Government to urgently address the lack of pre-funding for care.