carers allowance

margymuggins

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Can i claim carers allowance for my hubby even though i get dla myself i don't get any other monies and my needs are physical where my hubby's mental any advice PLEASE

rogerblack

Yes.
Assuming he gets DLA at medium-rate care or over.
Similarly, he may be able to claim CA (or a carers premium) for looking after you, if you get MRC or over DLA.
Mobility needs do not lead to CA.

Arsenalrule74

My wife and I are both claiming dla, for mental health reasons. Can we try to claim for carers benefit for each other.

rogerblack

Arsenalrule74 wrote: »

My wife and I are both claiming dla, for mental health reasons. Can we try to claim for carers benefit for each other.

Perhaps.
If, as above, you are receiving medium rate care or above.
If you are claiming ESA (for example) then you will not directly recieve CA, but a premium on top.

tiddlertot

Arsenalrule74 wrote: »

My wife and I are both claiming dla, for mental health reasons. Can we try to claim for carers benefit for each other.

I'm waiting for the first brave soul to make a comment about this posting, simply because I don't understand how it is possible for each to care for at least 35 hours a week for each other!

For one partner to receive DLA for a physical need and the other for a mental health problem I can fully understand.

RL123

tiddlertot wrote: »

I'm waiting for the first brave soul to make a comment about this posting, simply because I don't understand how it is possible for each to care for at least 35 hours a week for each other!

For one partner to receive DLA for a physical need and the other for a mental health problem I can fully understand.

It's quite easy to be caring 35 hours per week for one another. Different people with disabilities have different care needs. For instance, it could be that the wife is unable to cook for herself due to her mental health condition and as such the OP cooks for her. Or that they are both able to calm one another down if one of them was to have an incident due to their mental health condition.

It is quite common for 2 disabled people to be claiming CA for looking after one another, especially with the elder generation.

tiddlertot

RL123 wrote: »

It's quite easy to be caring 35 hours per week for one another. Different people with disabilities have different care needs. For instance, it could be that the wife is unable to cook for herself due to her mental health condition and as such the OP cooks for her. Or that they are both able to calm one another down if one of them was to have an incident due to their mental health condition.

It is quite common for 2 disabled people to be claiming CA for looking after one another, especially with the elder generation.

I think that the time has come for those that claim CA to prove on a regular basis to the DWP exactly what they do and whether it can be classified as actual caring.

At the moment all one has to do is say they are 'caring' for 35 hours + a week, every week, and that the DLA/AA recipient who receives this care confirms this to be the case.

There is no independent verification whatsoever carried out. And at £58.45 a week it is a way of (a) avoiding having to claim JSA/ESA and all that that goes with those claims and (b) it helps bump up a means tested benefit if both claim for each other at the rate of an extra £65.20 a week!

The option is open for me to claim it. I have a relative that receives AA and no one claims CA for him. I don't carry out any care function, but if I said I did, and the relative agreed I did, I would be 'entitled' to the payment as the DWP do not carry out any checks whatsoever! Maybe split the CA payment 50/50 and we both win!!

CA should have the same controls and checks carried out as other benefits have.
All too easy to to 'abuse' the position if both partners are complicit in the scam.