DLA and carers allowance

kitkatkay

Hi I am after a piece of advice please, My mother lives with myself and my Husband and she is in receipt of PERSONAL INDEPENDANCE PAYMENT at the following rates, standard rate daily living allowance and enhanced rate mobility allowance.

I myself am in receipt of PERSONAL INDEPENDANCE PAYMENT at the following rates: Enhanced rate, My husband works full time so we are not in receipt of any other benefits.

My question is could myself or my mother claim carers allowance for each other ?

HappyMJ

kitkatkay wrote: »

Hi I am after a piece of advice please, My mother lives with myself and my Husband and she is in receipt of PERSONAL INDEPENDANCE PAYMENT at the following rates, standard rate daily living allowance and enhanced rate mobility allowance.

I myself am in receipt of PERSONAL INDEPENDANCE PAYMENT at the following rates: Enhanced rate, My husband works full time so we are not in receipt of any other benefits.

My question is could myself or my mother claim carers allowance for each other ?

Yes you could claim carers credit to keep your NI up to date if claiming carers allowance isn't worth claiming.

Make sure you do keep your NI up to date.

You can check you NI history online and I would highly recommend you do that as it's highly likely you may not have a full history.

Alice_Holt

Yes.
But you would need to be receiving the Daily Living Component for your mother to claim CA for you.

These are the conditions:
https://www.carersuk.org/help-and-advice/financial-support/help-with-benefits/carers-allowance

To claim CA see
https://www.gov.uk/carers-allowance/overview

Icequeen99

Does your mother care for you 35 hours a week? Do you care for your mother 35 hours a week?

If so, then yes if you meet the other conditions. But DWP could well take it into account when they review your PIP by looking at what care you are actually providing and whether that is compatible with your PIP claim. It is possible, but it depends on what the illnesses are.

IQ

kimplus8

I have answered on the other thread

Bananas123

yeah i was thinking that, but working people can get PIP, as PIP can be spent on disability aids etc etc to help people continue working,

if they were claiming ESA, PIP and then wanting carers allowance on top

(can't work, disabled, but can work 35hours a week (provided it's more money))

...then i would be with you.

kitkatkay

I was asking a simple question as mine is for Bipolar and my mothers is for health issues which are 2 different things but WOW thanks for being so judgemental without the facts.

xylophone

This question reminds me of Andy and Flo who also cared for each other ...:)

FBaby

CA is one benefit that gets very little scrutiny (or really, none at all), and that's because it is impossible to check that people are indeed providing 35h of care (rather than normal companionship) and any investigation would cost more than the actual award.

However, applications for CA (which are always granted as long as the person cared for receives the right PIP/DLA award) have gone massively up in the last 10 years and I suspect will be next in the firing box and rightly so. I think it is now seen as additional income for anyone not working who can claim for someone receiving DLA/PIP, regardless of whether they can actually provide the level of care that comes with it.

I expect CA will soon be looked into in the next few years, if not in terms of investigations, in terms of tightening up eligibility and rightly so.

xylophone

Maybe consider next time you post such a judgemental reply that not everyone is as fortunate as you?

And how do you know how fortunate (or otherwise) this poster is?

For my own part, I would just say that surely the PIP/DLA etc allowances received by those eligible should cover the cost of any care needed without any additional " Carers' Allowance"?

I'm afraid that the question did make me think of Andy and Flo/ Rotoguys/Benniebert etc etc and the bottomless coffer of money implied by

Welfare Rights/my social worker and the council encouraged us to make the claims.

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/3789375

It would appear from comments made by posters experienced in the area that this benefit is particularly open to abuse?

densol_2

FBaby wrote: »

CA is one benefit that gets very little scrutiny (or really, none at all), and that's because it is impossible to check that people are indeed providing 35h of care (rather than normal companionship) and any investigation would cost more than the actual award.

However, applications for CA (which are always granted as long as the person cared for receives the right PIP/DLA award) have gone massively up in the last 10 years and I suspect will be next in the firing box and rightly so. I think it is now seen as additional income for anyone not working who can claim for someone receiving DLA/PIP, regardless of whether they can actually provide the level of care that comes with it.

I expect CA will soon be looked into in the next few years, if not in terms of investigations, in terms of tightening up eligibility and rightly so.

I do agree with this.