Carers Allowance swapping claimants etc

bll78

tea-bag wrote: »

In this case they live in the same house. And £3640 a year tax free extra as well as all the other benefits tops up to a very tidy sum for a household.

Are you being serious about talking is care? Maybe for someone who lives alone but not a couple. If that is the case sign me up I talk all the time.

It is a big fat con created mostly by lazy/faker people over exaggerating their impairment not disability to suck the system dry! I for one am glad people are now being re assessed and kicked off leaving money for people who really need it! Shame the scroungers and the lazy have jumped on this a give the genuine disabled a bad press.

there are too many forums helping fakers/lazy/think they are ill telling them how to fill out forms to maximise claims appeal and clog the system. Unfortunately MSE is one of them.

Just a point Carers allowance isn't tax free it's taxable.

I'm not sure what you mean by it's a big fat con? Do you mean carers allowance? I would describe it as a cheap method of caring. My partner had to give up £38k a year job for £61 a week (no other benefits as I have a ill health pension). I also get 10 hours a week of paid care to give him a rest from social services. That carer gets £10 an hour and won't/can't do half the stuff he has to because of health and safety. If he left me and went back to work how much would it cost? I'd be in a care home at whatever that costs a week nowadays £450ish.

I'm sure there are people that swing the lead but to get carers the person being cared for has to be on middle or high rate care, which many genuinely disabled people seem to struggle to prove they are entitled to. PIP may catch out some 'scroungers' but unfortunately it'll cause huge amount of stress to those genuinely disabled and no doubt see some of those lose money they genuinely should have. That said I don't have the answers.`

racon

tea-bag wrote: »

In this case they live in the same house. And £3640 a year tax free extra as well as all the other benefits tops up to a very tidy sum for a household.

Are you being serious about talking is care? Maybe for someone who lives alone but not a couple. If that is the case sign me up I talk all the time.

It is a big fat con created mostly by lazy/faker people over exaggerating their impairment not disability to suck the system dry! I for one am glad people are now being re assessed and kicked off leaving money for people who really need it! Shame the scroungers and the lazy have jumped on this a give the genuine disabled a bad press.

there are too many forums helping fakers/lazy/think they are ill telling them how to fill out forms to maximise claims appeal and clog the system. Unfortunately MSE is one of them.

Hey, yes talking & encouraging are all part of the caring package. £3556.80 is the annual amount that two carers would get for providing 70 hours of care between them each week. That actually works out at just under 98p an hour. I don't know many, if any, jobs that would pay that fantastic level of remuneration. What you seem to forget that the cared for person has to have had to go through a lengthy and difficult assessment to be able to have someone get 98p a hour for looking after them. As a matter of interest, there are many that do NOT claim Carers Allowance or any form of disability benefit when they are clearly entitled to do so. £millions go unclaimed every year for DLA/PIP & Carers Allowance. On a personal note, I received the middle care rate of DLA (which entitles someone to claim Carers Allowance) for nearly 20 years. Of those years, my wife only claimed for 3 of them as my carer. Why, because we didn't know that she could.

merlin68

These posts make me cross, she is entitled to claim ca the government says she is. Who are the genuine disabled people always come up with this argument. We've been called fakers and scroungers and it sucks. I have severe lung disease and a connective tissue disease which means my legs give way and i cant walk far and dd has learning dissabilities and is partly deaf with a speech deffect. Hubby gave up his job to care for us and gets £61 a week.

racon

merlin68 wrote: »

These posts make me cross, she is entitled to claim ca the government says she is. Who are the genuine disabled people always come up with this argument. We've been called fakers and scroungers and it sucks. I have severe lung disease and a connective tissue disease which means my legs give way and i cant walk far and dd has learning dissabilities and is partly deaf with a speech deffect. Hubby gave up his job to care for us and gets £61 a week.

Hey, unfortunately there are people about that have the opinion that everybody that claims a benefit is a scrounger and faker. There is little that you can do, I find, to convince them otherwise. Personally I think that these people are very short sighted and don't appreciate how difficult and costly having a disability is.