GP surgeries and care homes are demanding an exemption from Rachel Reeves’s rise in employer national insurance.
Darren Jones, Chief Secretary to the Treasury confirmed this morning Non public sector organisation will not be exempt after GPs, care homes and hospices raised concerns about the impact of the rise in employer National Insurance contributions announced in the Budget
NHS and public sector will not have to pay the rise in employers’ National Insurance contributions which increases to 15 per cent from April
Yesterday Lib Dem leader Ed Davy told MO’s that the care sector will be ‘pushed to brink’ by national insurance hike and should be exempt.
The Liberal Democrats have called on the government to exempt the social care sector from the increase in national insurance in Labour’s budget.
Meanwhile the Government has been told that GP surgeries will have to consider making staff redundant if the rise in employer national insurance contributions announced in the Budget is not covered
“Professor Martin Green, chief executive of Care England, said the policy combined with the NLW hike would create a £2bn financial black hole for social care providers.”
