Carers allowance, I work, am I entitled?

bloolagoon

I don't see anything that warrants CA. I can't see how you spend 35 Hours caring for him. I am ill at the moment, my family need to help me out more as I get tired and am nauseous. I don't need personal care but housework help. This isn't part of DLA/PIP, it's care needs. Do you spend 35 hours caring not popping to the shops for him, which he can do as works or could order on line.

FBaby

Take him places when? If he works fulltime it can't be that often. Also what's the point of getting a motability car if he can't afford the fuel?

marliepanda

If he often feels to tired or too in pain to drive then perhaps having the motability car is not the most convenient use if his dla mobility money.

Or do you think that DLA should give him a taxed tested car, and pay for your fuel when he's too tired to use his free car?

Errata

I_Love_Shoes wrote: »

We don't live together, but stay around each others houses a few times a week. Now that he has his house we are looking at me maybe moving in, but I would obviously have to pay rent and I cant afford to at the moment. I am spending a lot more in fuel to take him places (when he is feeling too tired to drive or his feet are hurting too much) which is another reason I am looking into the carers allowance as my potential rent money is being spent on fuel etc for him. He cant afford to let me live there rent free either.

Why doesn't he give you the petrol money when he's too tired to drive or his feet are hurting him? Why don't you drive his vehicle?
Why isn't the NHS providing him with dressings?

I_Love_Shoes

He doesn't need care 24/7 like some people with a disability need. He is fairly independent and is trying to hold down a job and have a mortgage etc, but he does struggle because of his disability.
He suffers a lot of back pain, which is when I get woken up in the night to try and ease him of his pain, some days he is too tired to drive or cook for himself so I will do that (I also live the other side of the city from him). If he has an operation, he needs to be driven around as he is not able to walk for 3 months at a time, plus changing dressings (not all, I'm not a nurse).
He has sacrificed his disability benefit in order to get the motability car, so its not like he has just been given a free car. I am under 25 so I cant get insured on his car (if i could be insured on his car it would make things so much easier!)
Look, I am not trying to suck as much money out of the government as I can (I have never been on any kind of benefit), I am an honest hard working person, as is he, and I am just trying to see if there is any help I can get from them because I am spending more money due to his disability.

Poppie68

If he can't afford to have you living there rent free why is he moving out? What you are failing to understand is that the money given to him each month in the form of DLA is there to pay for such things as bandages, fuels etc. You also fail to understand that he is very lucky to be living in a country that pays a disabled person enough money to drive a new car with insurance and road tax thrown in and leave enough money to help provide for the extras needed and allow him to work fulltime without deductions from his DLA.

marliepanda

If he is so often unable to drive his car then really he should have kept the benefit money to pay for taxis and your fuel. Why give up his money for a car which is not always useful to him.

Can you really account for 35 hours of actual care?

Tryingagainandagain

Firstly, you are not a carer in the sense that Carer's Allowance is designed for. Look at the website.

Secondly I suggest that at "under 25" you stop being so dogmatic about people that you are calling scroungers.
You say you haven't been on benefits - well you've hardly lived yet. You haven't been a taxpayer for very long either.

There are good people out there on benefits who have lost their jobs, never had the chance to get a job in the first place or are not in a position to work now. Read your signature!!

Poppie68

If he can't afford to pay for his fuel and bandages how on earth is he going to manage to pay for a mortgage? What kind of dressings/bandages are they, does he get a prescription for them, how much do you pay for them?

FBaby

From what you are writing I can't see that you are providing any care that I don't provide to my husband and vice versa. He isn't disabled but had two operations last year and will be having two again in the next month. I will care for him during that time, even take a few days of work to do so. That's part of being in a relationship I'm afraid!