Disabled parent

domhurley

Hi, I'm disabled & on DLA & incapacity. We've just had a baby daughter. My wife needs to get back to work asap as we have no money, and every where we look about what benefits we can receive to help with childcare & other costs, there doesn't seem to be a section about 1 disabled parent & one working.
Is there anything that anyone knows about?

Cheers

Dom

seven-day-weekend

You might be better posting this on the Benefits Board.

Or, try ringing your local CAB and speak to a Benefits Advisor.

Oldernotwiser

Is there a reason why you can't look after the baby yourself?

Indie_Kid

From HMRC:

Generally you and your partner must both work 16 hours or more a week to claim help [with childcare costs]. Only one of you has to work 16 hours or more if one of you is:

• ill or disabled and claiming disability benefits

Broken_hearted

sh1305 wrote: »

From HMRC:

Generally you and your partner must both work 16 hours or more a week to claim help [with childcare costs]. Only one of you has to work 16 hours or more if one of you is:

• ill or disabled and claiming disability benefits

Another one of those it should work that way but in reality never does.

domhurley

Oldernotwiser wrote: »

Is there a reason why you can't look after the baby yourself?

I had a brain injury, leaving me with right sided weakness, so really unsure when I pick her up or change a nappy etc so really not sure I could cope on my own

DX2

Have you applied for child tax credits/working tax credits?

DX2

Help with the costs of childcare
You may be able to get more Working Tax Credit to help with the cost of
registered or approved childcare. This is the childcare element of
Working Tax Credit. The childcare element can help with up to 80% of
your childcare costs up to a maximum cost of £175 a week for one child
and £300 a week for two or more children. This means that the childcare
element is worth up to an extra:
• £140 a week (80% of £175) for families with one child, and
• £240 a week (80% of £300) for families with two or more children.
The amount you receive will depend on your income and will be paid
directly to the main carer.
To claim the childcare element you must be over 16.

If you are a lone parent

, you must work 16 hours a week or more.

If you are in a couple,

both of you must work 16 hours a week or more.

Alternatively, only one partner needs to work 16 hours a week or more if
the other is:
• incapacitated
• an in-patient in hospital, or
• in prison (whether serving a custodial sentence or remanded in custody
awaiting trial or sentence).
You will be treated as incapacitated if you receive:
• Disability Living Allowance
• Attendance Allowance
• Severe Disablement Allowance
• Incapacity Benefit at the short-term higher rate or long-term rate
• contribution-based Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) if you have
received:
– this allowance for 28 weeks or more, or
– Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) followed by contribution-based ESA for a
period of 28 weeks or more
• Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit (with Constant Attendance
Allowance for you)
• War Disablement Pension (with Constant Attendance Allowance for you)
• Council Tax Benefit or Housing Benefit with a Disability Premium or
Higher Pensioner Premium for you, or
• a vehicle under the Invalid Vehicle Scheme.

http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/leaflets/wtc2.pdf
Page 16

Oldernotwiser

domhurley wrote: »

I had a brain injury, leaving me with right sided weakness, so really unsure when I pick her up or change a nappy etc so really not sure I could cope on my own

Doesn't that affect your safety when cycling?

domhurley

Oldernotwiser wrote: »

Doesn't that affect your safety when cycling?

Sort of !!!! I'm off the bike at the moment after falling and shashing my collar bone in 7 places. Already had one op, now waiting for another.
What happens is I grip the handlebars and can't let go on the right side, so have my brakes and gears on the left

How did you know I was a cyclist?

Indie_Kid

You mentioned cycling in a previous thread.