Is Carers allowance changing ?

marleyboy

I've not heard anything about it and if that link is anything to go by, neither has anyone else.

50Twuncle

marleyboy wrote: »

I've not heard anything about it and if that link is anything to go by, neither has anyone else.

I did find a gov link to it yesterday - but have lost it now

colin13

all of te people who get CA,save the government a lot of money,as somone wo has MS if wife wasnt here i would require help,,which would cost a lot more than CA,,,carers derserve a rise,for what they do

nannytone_2

mrcol1000 wrote: »

How would you prove they were not caring for that person? If you made it harder to claim and provide proof you were caring then you would get in the same position where disabled people complain they have to prove they are actually disabled.

I agree the money is pittance. If I was not married then it would cost at lot more for someone to be paid to provide the assistance I need.

so benefit should be paid just because someone claims it, with no checks to ensure that the conditions of the benefit are being adhered to?
every other benefit has checks in place to make sure it is correctly claimed.
regarding disability benefit .... do you also think people should be able to claim it without proof of disability?

just to add ... i am disabled myself and so not a 'basher'.
but it amazes me that someone could claim CA just because i agree that someone helps me.
as i said .... if i didn't live alone i would lose the SDP anyway, so it would make no difference for me to allow someone to claim CA and get a bit extra.

Ames

Checks would also help to stop disabled people being exploited.

Although just how you'd check I don't know.

harveybobbles

Is this another one of your pathetic posts 50T where you ill-inform people then never provide links to back up your bollox?

50Twuncle

harveybobbles wrote: »

Is this another one of your pathetic posts 50T where you ill-inform people then never provide links to back up your bollox?

No - and how are you this pleasant warm day HB ?
Still with us - are you ?

mrcol1000

nannytone wrote: »

so benefit should be paid just because someone claims it, with no checks to ensure that the conditions of the benefit are being adhered to?
every other benefit has checks in place to make sure it is correctly claimed.
regarding disability benefit .... do you also think people should be able to claim it without proof of disability?

just to add ... i am disabled myself and so not a 'basher'.
but it amazes me that someone could claim CA just because i agree that someone helps me.
as i said .... if i didn't live alone i would lose the SDP anyway, so it would make no difference for me to allow someone to claim CA and get a bit extra.

I agree completely However any kind of monitoring or checking is just going to make life incredibly difficult. Limit it to people who live with that person and you are probably going to wipe out 50% of carers. Make people keep a diary of the care they provide and you make a huge headache for the carer. In most cases, I really can not see any way of checking claimants are really caring for that person. Or proving that someone who says they are caring for a disabled person, isn't.

50Twuncle

Some interesting stats
http://ilegal.org.uk/thread/7120/disability-living-allowance-facts-figures

cbrown372

50Twuncle wrote: »

Some interesting stats
http://ilegal.org.uk/thread/7120/disability-living-allowance-facts-figures

That are years old?