Disability Living Allowance & Mobility

dawn78

yes not very clear so i feel confused lol

so will i or not be better off with carers :S

mookie

dawn78 wrote: »

yes not very clear so i feel confused lol

so will i or not be better off with carers :S

I get carers but I dont qualify for IS but I have found this information for you

If you apply successfully for Carer's Allowance, and you are on Income Support or income-based Job Seekers' Allowance, you should receive the Carer Premium automatically. If the Carer Premium is not added to your benefit within a couple of weeks of receiving the decision about Carer's Allowance, take the letter awarding benefit application to your local Social Security office and ask for Carer Premium to be paid.

If you get the Carer Premium and already receive Housing Benefit and/or Council Tax Benefit (Rate Rebate in Northern Ireland), tell the office dealing with your benefit(s) that you have been awarded Carer's Allowance or have an underlying entitlement to it. They will recalculate the benefit to take this into account.

I think this means you will get the £27.15 per week based on underlying entitlement for the Carers Allowance on top of your IS.

Dont forget to call the other places I mentioned in my last post as on top of the £27.15 you could get more money on your other benefits.

dawn78

hi i was wondering if i go onto carers allowance then will i still get free dentists and prescriptions or not?? as trying to work out whether i am better off on it or not

shazrobo

dawn78 wrote: »

hi i was wondering if i go onto carers allowance then will i still get free dentists and prescriptions or not?? as trying to work out whether i am better off on it or not

do u work dawn?
i'm asking because if you don't then u will still receive some income support as well as carer's, then u would still get the free dentist, prescriptions etc

lil_me

As long as you are still entitled to some income support (given the details you have given already you will be) you would still be entitled to free dental treatment etc.

The other issue this will change is when the law comes in that all single parents of children under 10, then under 7 must go onto JSA instead of Income Support and look for work, you wouldn't be required to as you would be a carer.

dawn78

hi i rang the carers helpline and they said i would have to pay prescriptions and also pay for dental treatment too, so now i am unsure whether to go onto carers as dental treatment costs loads lol

beanielou

dawn ~ I dont think ths is correct.
If you get CTC (Not WTC though) & your income is less than roughly £15k you should stll get the little NHS tax credits exemption card.
HTH

lil_me

dawn78 wrote: »

hi i rang the carers helpline and they said i would have to pay prescriptions and also pay for dental treatment too, so now i am unsure whether to go onto carers as dental treatment costs loads lol

IF you only claim Carers Allowance, if you're entitled to IS still then this wouldn't apply. You can also apply for expemption if on low income which you would be if only on Carers Allowance.

If you take all your current paperwork to your local CAB or Welfare Rights office they would be able to go through all this with you and save any further confusion.

dawn78

i get CTC and IS and child benefit at moment, and also now we get DLA for my son! so my income has jumped up so much it is shocking lol so i am not sure what the score is with prescriptions and dentist fees and they did say today i wont get them paid as i probably wont get no IS once i change over to CA as the IS and CA will work out same money so it will cancel out my IS

i will now get

31 child benefit
60 DLA (for son)
130 ctc
50 is or ca

a week

beanielou

dawn~what I said in my post above is correct.
You need to remember that the DLA is excluded as income.