Almost 90,000 people in England have fallen behind on costly care payments as the cost of living crisis deepens, and hundreds now face action from aggressive debt recovery agencies, openDemocracy can reveal.
Of the 87,421 adult social care users known to have missed at least one payment, 60,248 have been issued with a reminder or a warning notice.
This latter figure equates to a quarter of all chargeable adult social care users, which includes those who are elderly or have a disability, across the 78 English councils that responded to openDemocracy’s Freedom of Information request.
