Re: Paying for Social Care.

You weren't looking in the right place then, both are mentioned throughout that government website:

https://www.gov.uk/government/public...s-2020-to-2021

PDF on Pension and Benefit rates, click on that then look down the left hand side in blue text for all the different kinds of benefits there are plus pensions.

Re: Paying for Social Care.

"Old age pension" is not contributory. The "pension" (actually a Benefit - note the capital "B") comes from general Taxation and is part of the Welfare State Benefits.

There is NO hypothecated monies to pay for the "OAP".

There never was.

NI is a job tax introduced to boost the income to the treasury in order to pay for the role, the NHS, the bolstered Social Services that came in after the war that included an expanded insurance to provide for people who could no longer cater for themselves which was wrongly labeled a pension.