Mike Padgham, chair of The Independent Care Group, urged the chancellor to review her budget measures and make care providers exempt from the National Insurance rise in the same way that the NHS is.
Care providers have warned the government that the UK social care system is "at breaking point" as it struggles with rising demand and high costs.
The government has published plans to reform the social care system, aiming to establish a National Care Service designed to bring it closer to the NHS.
It comes as thousands of care and support providers, and some of those who rely on the service, plan to stage a demonstration in central London to urge the government to give more support to the ailing sector.
Paul, 77, says if they could not get home care Shelia would have to move into a care home.
