Who can claim Carers Allowance?

Lady_strange

OP here is a question for you.... If the government started handing out arsenic pills, would you take them just because they were there to be taken?

MamaMoo_2

Lady_strange wrote: »

OP here is a question for you.... If the government started handing out arsenic pills, would you take them just because they were there to be taken?

She probably would...

paddedjohn

i can deliver them if she wants.

BatOutOfUll

Troll or no Troll am I right in thinking that if her Daughter DID get the allowance then it would be taken off the OP?

I only ask as my non-resident partner asked me to be his carer, when he was going through a bad time with his PD, but they said that he would of course lose his care component of DLA as it would be paid out to a carer i.e. me. In the end we didn't claim as I earned well over the £95 a week, worked full-time and couldn't have done the 35 hours anyway.

So this £55 would probably only make the OP £10 a week better off and for that she's condeming her daughter to a life on benefts and day spent watching Jeremy Kyle.......

debrag

I know someone she claims CA but does no caring at all, doesn't live in the same property and only goes over for money and to use the phone (rankng up £100s in bills & not paying back).

As long as the government do little in the way of checks and the people involved go along with it anyone can claim.

cosmic-dust

BatOutOfUll wrote: »

Troll or no Troll am I right in thinking that if her Daughter DID get the allowance then it would be taken off the OP?

I only ask as my non-resident partner asked me to be his carer, when he was going through a bad time with his PD, but they said that he would of course lose his care component of DLA as it would be paid out to a carer i.e. me. In the end we didn't claim as I earned well over the £95 a week, worked full-time and couldn't have done the 35 hours anyway.

So this £55 would probably only make the OP £10 a week better off and for that she's condeming her daughter to a life on benefts and day spent watching Jeremy Kyle.......

Nope you are wrong. Carers allowance doesn't affect the care component of DLA.

cosmic-dust

debrag wrote: »

As long as the government do little in the way of checks and the people involved go along with it anyone can claim.

There used to be a thing called honesty...old fashioned I know! I don't know how exactly checks can be put in place for CA though?

LadyMorticia

gemstargirl wrote: »

I'm not a troll, just annoyed enough with some of these comments that I want my say in reply!

Insults? I haven't seen any. If people want to call me lazy I don't care. Maybe I am I don't know. I just think that as it is in the offering I should be able to get at it.

My DLA may be reviewed, but I make sure that I tell my GP how bad my life is regularly. I also have back up from my social worker.
To be honest, I have found that if you say that you are capable, improved or in control, you lose what help is in the offering. I never say anything positive about my health, to do so, my social worker and welfare rights helper say that that is a sure way of losing benefits.

So I am quite confident that I have enough people around me that can give a report to the DWP that will let me keep all of my benefits.

Well, that just says it all to me, really.

LadyMorticia

My husband is my full-time carer. He does way more than 35 hours of care for me a week. He gets Carers Allowance because he is ENTITLED to it as he does more than the required hours of caring and I get HRC DLA.

It sounds like you just want your daughter to have some pocket money and you've already practically admitted that nobody gives you 35 hours care a week and because she wouldn't be doing the required amount of care a week, you are encouraging your daughter to make a fraudulent claim.

That's nice. Would you wash your hands of your daughter if the DWP make checks and find out that her claim isn't genuine?

Food for thought.

Metranil_Vavin

it's a troll guys....