Claim: The National Living Wage will cost care homes an extra £1 billion a year by 2020.
Fact-check: Pay for carers: will the 'national living wage' increase spending by £1 billion a year? - Full Fact
Verdict: some of this cost could be incurred anyway without the new policy, and the figure rests on a lot of uncertainty. other estimates even suggest higher costs.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Laura O'Brien
Date published: 2015-08-21T00:00:00