Petition Remove the Long-Term Care (LTC) cap before increasing the contribution rate.
The Proposed Budget 2027-2030 seeks to increase the LTC contributions rate to 2.5% by 2030. Since its inception, a cap on LTC contributions has applied at the Upper Earnings Limit. It is morally indefensible to make the further increases to the contribution rate while this cap remains in place.
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This petition is not about finance; it is about fairness. LTC contributions are currently capped at the UEL to provide consistency with Social Security contributions. This may have been reasonable when the LTC Fund was small but the demands on it, and the contributions required to sustain it, are expected to increase in the future. Maintaining a cap on LTC contributions is therefore unreasonable. The cap must be removed before the contribution rate is increased beyond its current level of 1.5%.
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