Carers allowance 35 hours per week how rigid!!

Samsaragirl

Just_caring wrote: »

Been advised by the job centre to claim CA for mum, how rigid are the rules if you do not do care for 35 hours some weeks, do they want to know what you do day by day?

If asked what I do day to day for my parents, both on AA and very incapacitated, I would just add upo the washing changing, mopping poo, but when #i actually look at the true side of it, the hours on call when I get in my car annd rush down (only child) hours spent getting the EXACT bit of shopping....Getting help getting recogniotion!!!

Samsaragirl

grummps wrote: »

So would I?????

I can see how I could play it to fiddle the claim.

instead of having the relative here from Monday to Friday, it could be split over a weekend thereby the caring could be shown to be carried out over a two week period.

78 hours Mon - Fri

or

39 hours Friday - Sunday
39 hours Monday - Thursday.

That would be classed as fraud as it would be manipulating the system to get 24 weeks in the year as qualifying instead of the 12 that I do - all doing the same hours albeit over a different timescale.

But having said that, how they manage to put in another two lots of 35 hours to complete the month I don't know - there must be a fiddle in it somewhere.

Maybe I will ask the question in a new thread 'how do you fiddle a claim for Carers Allowance if the relative you care for lives 300+ miles away?'

OMG you are not actually saying people should fiddle claims- try wiping your fathers bum. Is there any way these posters can be traced and reported

Just_caring

Well as a Newbie my OP seems to have " opened a can of worms"

Just an update, I rang the pension credit dept today to see if my mum got the extra severe disability allowance in her pension credit ( as this had been mentioned in earlier posts)and they advised me she did and if I claimed CA she would lose this, so I will NOT be claiming CA as I do not want to take money away from my mum, I will continue to do what I have done for her over the past few years and hope to do for many years, out of love and wish I had not been advised by a government official to claim CA.

grummps

Samsaragirl wrote: »

OMG you are not actually saying people should fiddle claims- try wiping your fathers bum. Is there any way these posters can be traced and reported

No I have no intention of fiddling anything. But given my circumstances (and I accept that I can't claim CA) I do wonder what others do and say to the DWP that do claim CA, where the relative lives 300+ miles away.

There have been many examples of this happening both on this site and others, but they never give out details of how they manage it!

grummps

Just_caring wrote: »

Well as a Newbie my OP seems to have " opened a can of worms"

Just an update, I rang the pension credit dept today to see if my mum got the extra severe disability allowance in her pension credit ( as this had been mentioned in earlier posts)and they advised me she did and if I claimed CA she would lose this, so I will NOT be claiming CA as I do not want to take money away from my mum, I will continue to do what I have done for her over the past few years and hope to do for many years, out of love and wish I had not been advised by a government official to claim CA.

That seems to be par for the course! My family have also suffered because of the lack of information given out and also because what information they do offer seems to be wrong!

It cost a family member (or I should say, it cost my wife and I) close to £3000 of benefits that she was actually entitled to over a period of 3 months!!!

Samsaragirl

grummps wrote: »

No I have no intention of fiddling anything. But given my circumstances (and I accept that I can't claim CA) I do wonder what others do and say to the DWP that do claim CA, where the relative lives 300+ miles away.

There have been many examples of this happening both on this site and others, but they never give out details of how they manage it!

Well all I can say is, it is not all about the times you are actually there. It is actually how much you are on call also, how much do you have a life outside also? Me, I have none. 24/7 waiting for calls.getting others into placer if I'm not there

Samsaragirl

Samsaragirl wrote: »

Well all I can say is, it is not all about the times you are actually there. It is actually how much you are on call also, how much do you have a life outside also? Me, I have none. 24/7 waiting for calls.getting others into placer if I'm not there

where the relative lives 300+ miles away.

This part is the crux of your anger (and mine) as I worry constantly, have never been on benefits till ex left me caring.

Went to buty a car for daughter. Son said he was selling cos he was using his mothers tax to get a disabled car (Audi) That kind of thing makes me annoyed

miss_marsters

Samsaragirl wrote: »

If asked what I do day to day for my parents, both on AA and very incapacitated, I would just add upo the washing changing, mopping poo, but when #i actually look at the true side of it, the hours on call when I get in my car annd rush down (only child) hours spent getting the EXACT bit of shopping....Getting help getting recogniotion!!!

It is possible to have paid carers and claim CA - something you should consider - it can be hard being the only one....

Samsaragirl

princessdon wrote: »

But isn't that lying to get benefits?

Either she is caring 35 hours plus (and therefore entitled) or not.

OMG have you ever been a carer!!! You do get confused as the actual practicalities are simple, the emotional burden, and the 'on call' time are what really take their toll!

Samsaragirl

miss_marsters wrote: »

It is possible to have paid carers and claim CA - something you should consider - it can be hard being the only one....

Have been on to social services yet again today. They don't even know I exist, even though both parents on AA, they say if my mum is compos mentis, which she is, but severly incapacitated physically, then I have no say.

It is getting beyond a joke.