Carers etc

To avoid being overpaid I would inform them straight away. The same applies to income support.

Tell them as soon as possible because you'll get a £50 civil penalty if not. I rang up them to say I was doing 2 weeks' work but the form arrived once I had started working and they fined me! It was a massive hassle putting in an appeal to get it back.

rogerblack wrote: »

You are not usually paid up until the date of your first paycheque.
Simply as that would mean by the end of the period, you'd have been paid both.
4 week run-ons do as I understand it apply if the cared-for person dies.
But - not if you start earning.
In the case of the OP - you absolutely can't do >16 hours work on IS - end of.
There is no run-on.

Sorry Roger, I hate to disagree with you but that is what happened to me. I had 4 weeks run-on with carers and IS. I was caring for my father only at that time and he is still very much alive!


When my mother died (February) I had either a six or eight week run on (can't remember which). Once that run on finished I was then able to claim carers for my father which then ended when I started work - with the 4 weeks run on.

rogerblack wrote: »

I'm not saying it diddn't. I'm saying that I believe this may be an error.
If it's a widespread error, I don't know.

Consider for example someone paid after 6 months.
If this was how it was calculated - and it was simply after your first pay - you could continue claiming CA for 6 months.
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/337400/dmgch15.pdf is the relevant bit of the DWP guidance, but the relevant paragraph - 15420 - is missing.

Really? Then I'm even more grateful that I got it! I must admit I had thought I wouldn't still get Carer's or IS once I started work but was really grateful when they told me I would!


Somehow, I can't see it happening to someone that wasn't going to get paid for 6 months but who knows!


Thanks for that Roger - must admit I was surprised to have to contradict you - you're always spot on with your posts!


Best wishes.

rogerblack wrote: »

You are not usually paid up until the date of your first paycheque.
Simply as that would mean by the end of the period, you'd have been paid both.
4 week run-ons do as I understand it apply if the cared-for person dies.
But - not if you start earning.
In the case of the OP - you absolutely can't do >16 hours work on IS - end of.
There is no run-on.

The renumerative work does not apply to Income Support if you are a carer, in other words just because you start work of sixteen hours or over does not mean that your I.S will close from the day you start this work.

The OP needs to ring and tell it IS and CA and tell them that she is starting work, I.S will not close untill she receives her first pay as said, this means if monthly paid then it will cease when that pay is received, or if weekly then will close then. Unless she claims WTC and this downloads onto the claim. The OP should get a four week housing benefit run on.
CA don't give a run on for starting work, they give an eight week run on if the Carer ceases caring for other reasons ie death of the disabled person