Tories 2015+ Benefit CUTS/Welfare-What are your 5 predictions,to what they will cut??

merlin68

You honestly call £61 a week profitable? If they stop carers allowance, what do you think will honestly happen?
I'll tell you, this, people will have to go back to work and the disabled will be queuing up for care homes costing the government in excess of £500 a week instead of the paltry £61.

ohreally

You already have a duplicate of this thread https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/68461137#Comment_68461137

billywilly

CTcelt1988 wrote: »

In that case they will probably lower the walking distance again to 10m.

Which sounds like par for the course.
I always understood 'unable to walk' as meaning not being able to put one foot in front of another - so on that basis they might as well make it ' less than 30cm

billywilly

merlin68 wrote: »

You honestly call £61 a week profitable? If they stop carers allowance, what do you think will honestly happen?
I'll tell you, this, people will have to go back to work and the disabled will be queuing up for care homes costing the government in excess of £500 a week instead of the paltry £61.

It is when you have a couple each claiming for the other! - £125 a week extra.

No they won't, the vast majority of carers would still provide the care even if nothing was paid.
They would have to be mercenary to tell their loved one that they cannot carry on caring if they don't get paid by the government.
And the government know that!

If I was having to care for my wife do you honestly think that I would stop if I didn't get my little bit of wedge? Would you stop if it was your mum/dad/brother/sister/wife?

rogerblack

billywilly wrote: »

Which sounds like par for the course.
I always understood 'unable to walk' as meaning not being able to put one foot in front of another - so on that basis they might as well make it ' less than 30cm

PIP does not use the term 'unable or virtually unable to walk'.

merlin68

Where do you get £125 from that's the severe diss premium, totally different to ca. Two carers premiums come to £70 a week. Yes people would have to give up if there relying on benefits, you need to pay the bills after all.
You would only get income support if you get carers allowance.

billywilly

merlin68 wrote: »

Where do you get £125 from that's the severe diss premium, totally different to ca. Two carers premiums come to £70 a week. Yes people would have to give up if there relying on benefits, you need to pay the bills after all.
You would only get income support if you get carers allowance.

Two lots of Carers Allowance payments?

Are you suggesting that some people move onto IS from say ESA or JSA because they get Carers Allowance?
There is nothing stopping anybody that provides care to sign on for JSA. People who are too sick to work are being forced to claim JSA, why not carers? Why are they on IS? Is it a choice that they have made?

I have seen many people move over to IS from JSA not because they are carers, but because they don't like what they have to do to get JSA.

merlin68

Yes but you dont get the full amount of ca on benefits, you get a £35 premium, therefore it would be £70 for two.
They probably dont know that they can, we didnt originally. It was job centre who told us we should claim income support instead of jsa.
Plus on jsa you both have to job search, which might prove hard for disabled person, whereas as on is neither of you do.
You cant swop from jsa to is unless a carer or a single parent with under 5.