In July 2011, the Dilnot Commission recommended a cap of £35,000 on the social care costs a person must pay. The Care Act 2014 gave the cap a legal basis.
In July 2015, the start date was moved to April 2020. In September 2021, the cap was set at £86,000. In November 2022, the reforms were postponed by two years. On 29 July 2024, the Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, cancelled them. The Treasury said they were “now impossible to deliver in full to previously announced timeframes.”