Liz Truss confirms she will pass £86,000 cap on social care costs as PM

Despite the abandonment of a series of policies by Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister has said she will continue with the care cap plan announced by her predecessor -

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Liz Truss has pledged to maintain the payroll tax cap so no one has to sell their home in their lifetime.

The Prime Minister has reiterated Boris Johnson's pledge that no one will have to pay more than £86,000 for his care.

Currently people have to fund the full cost of their social care until their assets, including the value of their homes, reach £23,250.

Ms Truss, who has already abandoned many of the key pledges in Mr Johnson's manifesto, was quizzed on sticking to her predecessor's welfare plan.

Speaking as she flew to the United Nations General Assembly in New York, she said: "My first priority on social protection is to make sure we put money in into social care this winter, as we currently have too many people who have to stay in hospital due to problems in the social care system."

When asked if she lived up to her party's 2019 manifesto pledge that no one should have to sell their home to pay for care, she replied, "I am."

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The Prime Minister has reiterated Boris Johnson's pledge that no one will have to pay more than £86,000 for their care (

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A government source confirmed that they meant people wouldn't have to sell their homes in their lifetime.

Ms Johnson promised a plan to tackle the welfare crisis the day she entered No10 in July 2019.

He said then: "I am announcing now - on the steps of Downing Street - that we will solve the social care crisis once and for all with a clear plan we have prepared to give every older person the dignity and the security it deserves."

A plan finally emerged last September, alongside a 1.25% increase in National Insurance, dubbed "...