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help and advice on claiming i/s or i/b

Can anyone help.
My wife is receiving dla high care, low mobility,
so we receive i/s
i get carers allowance for looking after her,
i am unable 2 look after her now as i have also became ill,
my doctor is advising me to put in sick lines and i should apply for dla,
can anyone tell me if we will be any better of if i apply as being sick aswell as my wife, this will mean me losing the carers allowance.
i no if i also get dla we will be better off, but i mean now in the short term, while i await the out come of the dla.
because once i give in sick lines i will stop receiving carers allowance.
or will we receive an more money from i/s or i/b
my wife only receives the stamp from i/b.

Comments

  • Once you stop claiming carer's allowance, your wife would be entitled to claim severe disability premium and enhanced disability premium. You would also be entitled to carers premium whether you claim IB or IS.

    Since you have a GP willing you to make a claim for DLA, go for it. A lot of DLA's claim fail because the claimant's GP hardly knows about the effect of the claimant's condition or is unwilling to sign their patient off as sick.
    WHAT I SAID NEVER CHANGED ANYONE, WHAT THEY UNDERSTOOD DID:A
  • healy
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    Once you stop claiming carer's allowance, your wife would be entitled to claim severe disability premium and enhanced disability premium. You would also be entitled to carers premium whether you claim IB or IS.

    Since you have a GP willing you to make a claim for DLA, go for it. A lot of DLA's claim fail because the claimant's GP hardly knows about the effect of the claimant's condition or is unwilling to sign their patient off as sick.

    She would not be able to claim SDP as she does not live alone. If her husband also received DLA care mid/high rate she could claim it then.
  • healy wrote: »
    She would not be able to claim SDP as she does not live alone. If her husband also received DLA care mid/high rate she could claim it then.

    I was mindful of the fact that he was given the go-ahead from his GP to make a claim for DLA, so I don't envisage the [strike]GP[/strike]DLA Doctor going against his fellow GP's opinion.

    Moreover, DDBell's GP obviously has firsthand information on how taking care of his wife, impacts on his health, so he is dead cert of receiving whatever level of DLA he puts in a claim for.
    WHAT I SAID NEVER CHANGED ANYONE, WHAT THEY UNDERSTOOD DID:A
  • healy
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    I was mindful of the fact that he was given the go-ahead from his GP to make a claim for DLA, so I don't envisage the [strike]GP[/strike]DLA Doctor going against his fellow GP's opinion.

    Moreover, DDBell's GP obviously has firsthand information on how taking care of his wife, impacts on his health, so he is dead cert of receiving whatever level of DLA he puts in a claim for.

    You have no way of knowing any of this, your previous information was incorrect.
  • suelees1
    suelees1 Posts: 1,617 Forumite
    If you are entitled to Incapacity Benefit it's an overlapping benefit with Carers Allowance so you'd no longer be paid CA but continue to have underlying entitlement to it. You'd therefore remain entitled to the carers premium in your IS.

    Unless you also start to get a qualifying benefit (Attendance Allowance or the middle or high rate of the DLA care component) get severe disabilty premium is not paid.

    If you did become entitled to the above and as long as you had no other adults living with you and no-once as PAID CA for looking after either of you then you would then become entitled to two severe disability premiums.
    I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog too!
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