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.

It further recommends introducing the rights to a regular hours contract for those working on zero-hours contracts and funding £2.5bn of practical help for young workers and technical education support by cancelling an upcoming corporation tax cut.

TUC general secretary Frances O’Grady said the report showed the need for “an economy that works for all people — millennials and baby boomers alike.”