WORKERS should keep paying national insurance when they reach state pension age “to maintain the NHS that the baby boomers were born into as they start to rely more heavily on it,” the Resolution Foundation says in a report today.

The think tank’s intergenerational commission called for the introduction of a £2.3 billion “NHS levy” which would help “reshape the intergenerational contract for the challenges of the 21st century.”

The report also calls for £2bn for social care funded by replacing council tax with a “progressive property tax with surcharges on second and empty properties” and increased property-based private contributions.