Unpaid Carers Forced to Repay Benefits

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A leading carers' charity says that a "huge" number of unpaid carers looking after disabled, frail or ill relatives, are facing severe fines from the government. Carers UK has now launched a petition calling for Parliament to review and reform the Carer's Allowance to increase support and reduce overpayments.
Elizabeth Tait looks after her son who has Down's syndrome and had to pay back the government £1623 after taking on extra supply teaching shifts to help with her family's finances.
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@rebeccamondloch4265 Месяц назад

£81.90 is only £2.34 per hour pay carers at least minimum wage. Carers save this government millions

@tkralva.6668 Месяц назад

It is less than that as they are often caring 24/7, not 35 hours a week, which is the minimum they must care for in order to receive the allowance. They can actually only be earning about 48p an hour.. If they were to have social service carers come in, then paying the carer and agency would cost about £30 an hour, even though the actual carer only earns about £12-15 an hour. It is criminal how family carers are treated, the hoops they have to jump through and how they are now being criminalised.

@SobrietyandSolace Месяц назад

Some people will get in a relationship with you just to collect carers allowance and not have to look for work then dump you as soon as you have to go to hospital and it looks like they’ll actually have to do something though.

@traceywilliamson6373 Месяц назад

No if you go over by a penny , I was 2p over the poverty line and I couldn't claim anything, would have been better off benefits , but couldn't do that if I packed my job in to claim benefits I would have to wait 10 weeks for the claim to be processed

@Zen-rd9np Месяц назад

@@SobrietyandSolacehow many of these people are there? Surly you wouldn’t be using only anecdotal evidence to vilify carers?

@baldieman64 22 дня назад

The reality is that the disabled people themselves are receiving benefits to cover the cost of additional care. Personally, I would happily increase those allowances and get rid of Carers Allowance entirely - leaving people to pay for their own carers, be they private, or family. This would reduce the need for bureaucracy to administer a second benefit. It also gets rid of the wildly unfair situation where those who can name a "carer" end up with a significantly higher household income than those that can't.

@naomi5495 Месяц назад

Unpaid carers save the country £162 billion per year - the equivalent of the entire NHS budget. Every time a carer gives up on unpaid caring because they can’t afford to live, it costs the public purse around £88,816 per year to provide 24/7 care to that carer’s loved one. The country would go bankrupt overnight if carers stopped putting up with this nonsense - they are holding this country up and out of economic implosion.

@dylanblack8487 Месяц назад

And dont forget the house of lords who get more than 300£ per day for turning up and falling asleep during debates?

@simonmcglary Месяц назад

Unpaid carers and volunteers in caring roles, and add in the volunteers on the likes of blood bikes and patient transport are saving the government way more than that! Any over payment when they still have someone to care for should just be written off. Small change compared to what the likes of energy companies and others can get away with with “creative accounting”!

@sharonhubbard9281 Месяц назад

Need to aske the questions where is that money going if not to carer's?

@user-yn7ll3qz1p Месяц назад

Westminster is trying to destroy the NHS and public health deliberately... you will own nothing and be happy...

@Fordster76 Месяц назад

I can remember a journalist writing a piece about unpaid carers “if all carers gave up caring, the economy would collapse”. That stuck with me. Caring is definitely for LOVE and not for the money, and the government knows this and use it to their advantage. Evil bar stewards

@Raven4508 Месяц назад

The DWP are disgusting...

@wleon4068 Месяц назад

The Tory DWP. Yes, absolutely.

@DrMontague 22 дня назад

The DWP is run by government, the people voted bojo and stabbed Corbyn in the back, , who is to blame,? Yes the people including care workers who voted for bojo, oh yes I knew plenty care workers who voted for bojo, now they have to take the consequences!

@goodluck-mx4qr Месяц назад

You should cover MPs claiming 2 houses and saying honest mistakes, side by side with carers who are being punished for little mistakes, and show the hypocrisy by those elected to serve and serve no one but themselves.

@user-id3xd1nx1m Месяц назад

well said

@wleon4068 Месяц назад

Well said indeed.

@wendyford2252 Месяц назад

As long as she is caring for her son 35 hours a week her earnings beyond that time should not be government owned. She has saved the government a lot of money by caring for free

@Odd_pictures Месяц назад

I totally agree with this. Seems so simple when you put it like that.

@dh2032 Месяц назад

@@Odd_pictures you will never bonus, for saving goverment cash, am almost sure it works the overdirection, the if get grip of greasy pope, the shy the limit of you can clamed for, but very little now how its done, the you gets it, the movement not very keen letting you know,

@alphafemme8154 Месяц назад

This woman deserves a personal apology, a medal, compensation and a long holiday.

@DrMontague 22 дня назад

I know carers who voted bojo!

@Vinny-Zen Месяц назад

The basic annual salary for an MP from 1 April 2024 is £91,346. MPs also receive expenses to cover the costs of running an office, employing staff, having somewhere to live in London or their constituency, and travelling between Parliament and their constituency. Meanwhile carers receive £4,258. How is that fair?

@leighannclements7849 Месяц назад

Exactly what an absolute joke get paid all that to run the country into the ground!!

@irenedavo3768 Месяц назад

Son would have his own Benefit include PIP?

@wordwordful Месяц назад

@@irenedavo3768 and that's changing. A voucher system has been mentioned. How's your life.

@wordwordful Месяц назад

@@irenedavo3768 Your absolutely correct on that but why do you mention it. Carers are heroes and the physical, and mental toll is exhausting. There is no monetary value on that. They are talking about reforming to a Voucher system so that will take care of getting too much. I suppose it could work where they have to itemise every spend so they will not even be able to buy a bunch of flowers being a luxury. Do you care for someone?

@huxy6719 Месяц назад

That would be for the son, his needs, his future. This is about lack of care from our greedy government for the hardworking carers who are treated so shabbily. Its a disgrace.@irenedavo3768

@beverleybrooks8247 Месяц назад

This woman was so decent and lovely. The money she is saving this government caring for her son, it's unbelievable how she and others have been treated, it's so unfair.

@ravinbarbs Месяц назад

What the heck , unpaid carers should get a decent allowance It's disgusting

@julianash4663 Месяц назад

To right

@Naturegarden236 Месяц назад

The system needs to change drastically to help unpaid carers. It's extremely hard work and 151.00 a week doesn't pay for anything. Many peoples electricity bill is more than that

@63mckenzie Месяц назад

I was a long term carer for my mother. After she died I tried to get back into work but was told by employers I had been out of the job market for too long. When I asked my MP what the government were doing to help long term carers back into work, she told me to visit the job centre. We save them billions and they don't give a f**k about us.

@joannedibben2352 Месяц назад

You are correct I'm sorry to say.if you visit the job centre your treated like a worthless nobody

@ruthie_sos6600 Месяц назад

I’m glad this topic is reaching mainstream media. I have been a carer for over 11 years and it’s exhausting. Receiving less than minimum wage for a job that never stops with no days off. I have in 11 years had 2 days without my caring responsibilities only due to the fact I was hospitalised. Carers deserve to be given respite to recover and an actual reasonable amount of money to live on. I previously calculated it would cost around £17k a week to cover the cost of the caring responsibilities for my family if I said I’d had enough. Enough is enough help those that need it urgently before we fail.

@irenedavo3768 Месяц назад

17 Thousand a week?

@ruthie_sos6600 Месяц назад

@@irenedavo3768 four autistic children not mine by birth. £5k per week for 3 of the worst in a specialist placement and £2k for the other child

@nathandraper4763 Месяц назад

Tax the global corporations properly! Get back all the money wasted on fraudulent PPE contracts! Don't harm working people who struggle to make ends meet.The Government's priorities are all wrong.

@SimonSmith-yd6tt Месяц назад

Take back the "civil service" from Privatised outsourcing companies

@priscillaroberts7945 Месяц назад

And outsourced medical care as well.@@SimonSmith-yd6tt

@sidsod1616 Месяц назад

How about stop putting illegal gimmegrants in 4star hotels on free everything. They arenot our responsibility, people like this lady are.

@SteveWebb Месяц назад

I had to close my company when my father died and a few weeks later my mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer's. As an only child I had to become my mother's carer. I get carers allowance which somehow is supposed to cover my existence. I have my own house I was doing up, which now I try and work on when I get a few hours to myself every week. Basically I'm living on my savings which I suspect is the same for most carers. I've paid my taxes for 35 years and also lots of taxes from my company, but there is basically no help when you need it.

@Raven4508 Месяц назад

Can you get Income Support , does it still exist. I got Carers Allowance from 2014 - mid 2016 and Income Support too.

@Jeannette-op5qe Месяц назад

What a scandal!! Unforgivable.

@Rick-xp5sy Месяц назад

Take them to court, no wonder the tories are finished, the way they’ve treated the British public is sickening.

@sharonhubbard9281 Месяц назад

It's not just the tories they all the same!

@dh2032 Месяц назад

she already been taken to court by the one should dishing out the cash? you cash that why asking/ to clame some cash, but take you court, the cost cash big cash, you think benefit form are complicated, and goblegook, they have nothing the court system, for stater they dont even speak the same english as everyone else, that have an understading it anyway, words sound the same but meaning nothing like the same, ann really need a high pay layer/barrister, to put you case, defend your side, of the thing, and if couls afford a high pay layer/barrister, you would need to why asking/ to clame some cash in the first place would you

@juggalomuthafacko1 Месяц назад

I have been a carer for my mother for about 20 years and have been paying those darlings at the dwp back money for about 7 years now ( only another 2 to go ). Because the local bank closed its branch and I put some of my parents money into my bank account because it was easier and I wouldn’t have to drag my disabled mother 10 miles to the next nearest bank. Anyway they knew very well that the money account but they insisted that I pay back over £6000. I have since learned that neither of my parents received state pension for over 22 years ( my mother is 83 and my father passed away 4 years ago at the age of 82). Those little sweethearts at the dwp would only pay back 1 years back pay of £4000 so that’s well over £200 thousand pounds they have lost out on. The double standards of these individuals is truly sickening.

@joannedibben2352 Месяц назад

Yes you are quite right it is all truly sickening and beyond belief how people are treated when there just trying to be carriers blessings to you

@TheVideoGamesHistorian Месяц назад

Carers should be paid a living wage .

@user-oj9mk6hn4h Месяц назад

My son was my carer for 2 years and was paid £65 a week. This nearly destroyed our relationship. He was made to pay it back with no explanation and at the same time I was forced to pay back £7000 for a false claim. I'm bed bound and unable to walk. Make that make sense. Carers who can barely speak English from overseas are being employed and doing minimum work for average £12 per hour. Yet family members are paid so little. Why pay Migrants when family members are so much better

@grunge_surf_witch_uk9130 Месяц назад

As a carer this is exactly what happened to me I got a second job and got fined £1000 and then fined again £500… also the more I work the more council tax i pay changes all the time! Then hit with bedroom tax of £70 a month! I can’t even afford food and not had a holiday for 10 years!! Worked in retail in the pandemic risking my life and my elderly dads just to survive!

@krg8774 Месяц назад

They need to make carers allowance the same pay as agency staff

@sorayacroton1399 Месяц назад

They are trying to take disability benefits off these people . That is what our so called government is doing .

@sorayacroton1399 Месяц назад

Such as pip

@seabreezedesigns. Месяц назад

So she earns about 2.50 an hour as a carer and has restrictions on earnings outside of caring. Absolutely disgraceful treatment !

@MissCBwasadancer3 Месяц назад

Disgraceful. My mum is my 24/7 carer. I’ve been bedridden 8 years. Tube fed, IV fluid & IV medication dependant 6 years. Stoma bag 3 years. She manages it all. Plus the phone calls, the deliveries, the restocking of supplies, writing emails etc on top of house chores and being a single parent to my brother also. She’s never had respite, even when I’m in hospital. She gets £65 a week. Yes it’s something, but it’s not enough. Her health isn’t taken seriously either. She deserves better. 😢

@acquiesce100 Месяц назад

And 771 young men all crossed the channel yesterday who are all going to get a £1000 a week and a free 5 star luxury lifestyle.

@silentgirltears782 Месяц назад

Your anger should be toward the MPs of our country who have pockets billions and billions while they try to tackfully distact you from their fraud and make u focus on the migrants who actually spend far less of our taxes than the average mp. Look at the figures not at the politics because politicians lie

@priscillaroberts7945 Месяц назад

Some exageration. I stayed in some of those hotels. Not 5 star and a lot cheaper than the tories mates rates tbh. Process them and make them work.

@meosian1416 Месяц назад

1000 a week?

@patrickfegerline Месяц назад

@@meosian1416he is delusional

@wleon4068 Месяц назад

Still reading your Daily Mail? Don't believe everything you read. What you said is far from the truth.

@kevinhay3778 Месяц назад

This political system is doing very well thanks. Don't be a low income person. Just be a billionaire Is so obvious.😢

@joannedibben2352 Месяц назад

Yes your spot on right I was a low in come earner the minute I earn a few more hours they can't wait to tax me almost like there waiting to pounce the minute I go over by a pound!

@Blackjax137 Месяц назад

You overpay, you lose it. The burden should not fall on carers and ordinary working people because of an incompetent government's incompetency.

@63mckenzie Месяц назад

I was a carer for my mother. I was incorrectly told I couldn't claim carers allowance. Months later I found out this was wrong but they refused to back date the allowance to when I first tried to claim it. Seems payback only works one way.

@robinholland1136 Месяц назад

I would replace the word 'incompetent' in your comment with 'corrupt'.

@Dinadino994 Месяц назад

I’m one of those carers affected . £8,000 paid back in 6 years from UC. Still rising , now I have to file a debt relief order . Carers allowance was taken as income from UC and they want to deduct it again . It affected my housing benefit & council tax this caused an eviction notice. Council tax also admitted to mistaking me for another tenant of same name AFTER I asked them to investigate the possibility as it had happened since the 90s. I have been receiving therapy because of the effect .

@dmcarpman Месяц назад

this has effected you mentally like it has me with there we want this money back attitude. i do hope that you get cancelled from the debt relief order and make sure you send them all proof from doctors showing medication etc.

@thepm3972 29 дней назад

This lady is a saint...this government showed be the ones taken to court...cruel beyond belief

@blooddevil0 Месяц назад

thats nothing Carers allowance force my wife to pay back £3000+ for caring for her mom only just finished paying it off and it was there fault, but they didn't care in the slightest

@suedavis3581 Месяц назад

I had my cares allowance stopped when I got my pension. Still caring though.

@ScotchMist-lx1gk Месяц назад

Yes , that’s the rule which I think is disgraceful. You are not young yourself .

@rosemarygriffin2184 Месяц назад

Another issue that needs to be addressed is, when you become a pensioner, your carers allowance automatically stops. Yet we are still caring for our loved one, now an upaid.

@nicolahall27 Месяц назад

The so called judge needs investigated immediately. If not then it’s very obvious the government has decided this is ok. The dwp are an absolute embarrassment. People on less than £30k a year think they are the deciders of fate. Imagine having no fckin morals for less than £30k a year. That’s what really gets me. The people on the phones etc actually doing this to people are so pathetic they will accept buttons to ruin people’s life’s

@miriambayliss7058 Месяц назад

Tribunals are not recorded Been to 4 so far re education. Rather telling is it not. The judge and panel will receive significantly more for their days work that a carer gets Carers should be seen as the saving they create and add in the loss of their earnings due to being a carer.

@wordwordful Месяц назад

Anyone remember when the Government did a push and sent sick and disabled to Atos for examination. The man who weighed 6 stone and had Cancer was deemed fit for work. It was in all the papers. Some months after he died. Callous to say the least.

@reachandler3655 Месяц назад

Carers allowance pays about £2.32 per hour, which is disgraceful. If you also work and earn even £1 over the limit, you'll lose that £81? That's ridiculous!

@leighannclements7849 Месяц назад

You also get taxed if your claiming universal credit

@rarecockneyguvnor4945 Месяц назад

Carers are treated like dirt ,this is not right.

@krg8774 Месяц назад

How much would it cost social services too look after the lad 24/7??

@wordwordful Месяц назад

That would probably be an horrendous thought to Mum. Seeing that there is a high amount of abuse for vulnerable people in institutional Care. Personally I wouldn't pay SS out in washers. I know of someone with an Autistic Spectrum who was in assisted living. They wanted her to get a job in a pub washing up. She also used to get nasty comments and was not treated very nice. Obviously the Family came to her rescue.

@krg8774 22 дня назад

@@wordwordful I hear that and am so sorry for people treated like this, And as your aware people fall through the cracks in care there just a number on a form, What I was getting at is carers are around £15-20per hr, so if she give a minimum hrs of 40 per week & we all know it goes to some times double right, it would be around £800 pound per week not around £80 per week as family carer.

@BethsiderTavares-ug4sv Месяц назад

That's why I don't receive any carers allowance while looking after my son suffering from effective schizophrenia 24/7 without any allowance bcoz it feels like you are being trapped in accepting it. I have severe medical and mental issues myself but I have been looking after my son for decades now.

@leej-wp9ft Месяц назад

Not the biggest fan of Kate G at all but she won me over in this she genuinely cares about this issue that's clear hope she uses her voice to further this

@Zefyna Месяц назад

This is awful. If I was rich, I would give this brave lady a whole load of money. Unfortunately, I am a pensioner on a low income so cannot help.

@dragonvalo Месяц назад

as a former carer, they don't even pay you, they take it out of the benefit of the person you are caring for.

@brennadickinson2920 Месяц назад

Yes.

@Natalie81970 Месяц назад

My mum is full time carer to my dad but as she’s a pensioner she can’t get carers allowance. She has to lift, move, wash, feed and do everything for him on her own as she lives so far from family. There aren’t enough home caters in her area to get the help she needs. So she struggles alone. It’s an appalling system for carers

@oneleggedwonder1 Месяц назад

I had to pay back universal credit worked it out at around £260 I was lucky I found it so early I told them and they sent me a letter saying they looked at my claim and found that I have been overpaid when it was me that told them in the first place

@tinakane3750 Месяц назад

Lovey mother and son they should pay her to look after son she loves her son ❤

@captainjamesjamesy1053 Месяц назад

Private school club making laws for ordinary people

@Jlk-rm1jv Месяц назад

I'm not even surprised about this.

@AbigailBrown-wk7xl 29 дней назад

It's disgusting how carers are treated . Shocking

@Autumnfalls1972 Месяц назад

I cared for my mum for 17 years of my younger life till my mum passed away in 2009 it was so difficult low money no time no help mentally hard and physically hard as I had no help it’s a disgrace to hear this

@kiriseraph9674 Месяц назад

This happened to me about 5 years ago. My Dad had his PIP cancelled and didn't tell me so although I was still caring for him I wasn't eligible for carers anymore. He got his PIP back a year later and about a year after that the government noticed I had received carers for a year while my Dad didn't have PIP and decided to claw it back from me, still paying it off now. But hey, Tories got to pay for their parties somehow right?

@user-mi1yt6ju6f Месяц назад

Tories couldn't live on £84 an hour let alone a week! Glad your dad got his PIP back, just wondering if it was back dated because of the appeal process to when he lost it, if so, technically the carers allowance you got would have been paid to you anyway and you shouldn't have to pay it back!?!

@kiriseraph9674 Месяц назад

@@user-mi1yt6ju6f He didn't reapply for it for a year because he felt like they wouldn't do it. In the end he did reapply and got it but no backdating sadly.

@bernedettekuteyi3843 Месяц назад

Why should she have to repay the money back. When money is wasted on WARS

@gavinsmith9564 Месяц назад

Brexit has cost £140 Billion so far, imagine if we'd spent that on the country instead of far right unicorns and blue passports...

@martysamuels Месяц назад

Far right.....?? You're going there? 🤦🏻 Also, the financial City of London is actually prospering since Brexit..... Whether I agree with Brexit or not, that's an indisputable fact.

@noramartin96 Месяц назад

And the Blue Passports are alleged to be printed in France-- insult to injury \\Thanks Boris!

@noramartin96 Месяц назад

@@martysamuels WEll it isn't helping ordinary people !

@dogzero1 Месяц назад

@@martysamuels But that one small part of the UK does not help anyone except the rich, the bankers and the millionaires in London.

@jellymulder Месяц назад

no it hasn't and lockdowns cost far more than that

@morizwan123 Месяц назад

Welcome to Tory Britain. Can't wait for the General Election

@wordwordful Месяц назад

It doesn't matter who gets in. We are Global now not National. Most are Davos lovers and WEF, UN, WHO, EU are the Boss. The PM is just a front man. Same as Rishi a Millionaire. What does he know about how the man in the street lives.

@janpowell7536 Месяц назад

Don’t vote for any party they are all in together if you vote you’re voting for more of this, we need to make a stand saying we’re not putting up with it anymore.

@JustB3NJI Месяц назад

This government is mean for sport. This is sickening.

@chantalsscaleisafibber Месяц назад

She is💯 accurate on this issue

@Missmambo12 Месяц назад

It’s outrageous demanding money back like this when they are so underpaid for the care they give. How much would it cost the state if they give up caring and the state has to provide it instead. It’s cruel and impossible to find your way through.

@Victoria_2005 Месяц назад

It's not MPs, it's tory MPs who are doing this

@dialemmaz Месяц назад

I’d love to know how they come up with these figures…Elizabeth’s son is entitled to benefit in his own right and should have funds to pay for his care like the independent living fund. I’m not sure if it still exists but it should!

@grahamforshaw3837 Месяц назад

Disgusting, this mother has been badly treated,

@nickxcore74 Месяц назад

I got no help caring for my elderly Mum with Pancreatic cancer, because I didn’t want the stress of having to deal with the DWP. I was also caring for her before she got that diagnosis as my father passed away 2 years earlier after this government delayed his lifesaving immunotherapy treatment for an aggressive bladder cancer because of COVID. I’ll never every forgive this government, because they’re going after vulnerable people like the sick and disabled along with carers. The government are an absolute disgrace, they have no empathy or compassion for vulnerable people in this country.

@priscillaroberts7945 Месяц назад

When my late husband found out he was entitled to a benefit for an industrial lung disease diagnosed some years before he received a very nice letter explaining they could only backdate his claim for 12 months. So if it works that way why not the other when it's their mistake?

@assiyaq4346 Месяц назад

I chose to be an unpaid carer, because the system is so messed up.

@keith2507 Месяц назад

Imagine how much this would cost the government if every parent put their disabled child in the social care system

@ClaireWill71uk Месяц назад

Just lost my husband to multiple cancers, inc brain tumours. 13/15yrs of zero support. DWP didn't pay any carers allowance to me. To survive on less than £7k per annum. Paid over £3900 in electric costs, so have chosen not to eat in lieu of putting fuel in vehicle to get to medical appointments.

@rosewest5168 Месяц назад

£83 a week is shocking!

@Trish-ql9kz Месяц назад

£81 .90 a week... don’t know why they’re saying £86 a week 🤨

@onyx7onyx Месяц назад

@@Trish-ql9kz you are correct, just claimed for it myself a few days ago and wonder if I should have bothered

@psychokittie Месяц назад

I'm caring for both my parents as they are both sick (86 and 83 years old), but the government only pay carers allowance for one parent. They seem to think it is an easy job.

@christopherforster6555 Месяц назад

And yet they can pay 3000 pounds to send someone how brock into this country to send him on Holliday this is utterly disgusting 😈🥵

@user-it3vo8yu2t Месяц назад

I was my mothers carer for 25 years and never received a penny,got no help of any kind,I sorely miss my mother but I was somewhat relieved when she died for which I am endlessly guilty and it eats at me ever day I was told because I was working full time I would get nothing so for 25years I never had a holiday or a day off

@andynotdave Месяц назад

As a foster carer (18 years) I qualified for WTC. The change to universal credit meant I was expected to attend regular, " back to work" interviews to qualify for the benefit. I had to disengage because I'm a fee paid foster carer that cannot take any additional paid work (fostering rules). Now they want £350 back

@captaincaveman1234 Месяц назад

Rwanda scheme 3 grand 5 years rent paid for free flights lovely weather come back next week another 3 grand not bad profit.

@joannedibben2352 Месяц назад

Yes your right mean while is I go even a pound over my low income they can't wait to pounce and tax me

@user-sw2oj1nc4q 23 дня назад

That's why our own are being punished.. To pay for all the f.. K ups by the government RUN DWP punishing the poor and the people saving them billions each year get a grip and pay back what you have takin from these carers. INHERITANCE.... THAT GUYS HOME WOT CAN YOU DO NEXT TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE

@TanyaRando Месяц назад

Navigating the benefits system is a nightmare at the best of tines, but when you have the added effect on the carers mental and physical health, it makes it doubly as hard

@jamgart6880 Месяц назад

I look after my father. He has Parkinson’s and dementia. He’s in his 70’s and lives alone. I rent a house and live with my two children. I looked into carers allowance because I thought that might help us all out. But it was so complicated and so little pay for basically a full time job, I just couldn’t even understand why it was even an option. It seemed to have been made so that people did NOT apply for it. I’m currently working a part time job so that I can still go and look after my father and take him to appointments etc. but now that the cost of living is so high, I can barely afford my rent, in fact I can’t afford my rent and I’ve just been paying as much as I can at the moment until I find a full time job. But of course when that happens, I won’t be able to be there for my dad as much as I have been and I’ll worry about how he’s coping during the day. It feels like the government do think we are scrounging and using the system, even though we just want to look after and take care of our elderly/disabled family members.

@RebeccaJadee 2 дня назад

This lady is in the same position as me. Sadly there are too many of us in this position and it's absolutely disgusting!

@stevebarmore3509 Месяц назад

i get paid as a carer for my wife they then take the mony they pay me out of my wifes money so i actualy / we do not get the £80 ish its like a shell game

@virginiaalderson4793 Месяц назад

An oversight from the DWP. It is their job to make sure people get the right benefits they are entitled to. It’s their fault they didn’t jump on this overpayment sooner. Then to expect this lady to find such a large sum to repay?. The Dwp should take some accountability for their late oversight and write this debt off. As if the caring roles that consumed all of her time wasn’t enough to think about !.

@crafte164 Месяц назад

If you (just for example) have other children as a single parent, therefore have benefits capped without working a certain amount of money. I'd like to know how the government are ok with this. Particularly when employers have to be reasonable regarding hospital appointments, illnesses, emergency situations. And any support claimed for DLA is deducted anyway. Frustrating if you have paid a lot in tax and NI for years until this occurs

@user-sc9rw1ge1y 13 дней назад

A very strong lady, it is awful to hear about the DWP making her life even more difficult. I've had the same happen to me with DWP and the stress is enormous. It has a knock on effect to other benefits, eg housing benefit, which then has the Council after you for repayments. I have a lot of respect for this lady, maintaining her dignity throughout. Appreciate this very compassionate former minister adding to this discussion- he is clearly a man of principle to have quit his post over Government's treatment of disabled people and their carers.

@Morgan08-mx5hx 22 дня назад

People like this lady should be fully supported, she’s caring for her son, while this country pays billions to put migrants in hotels, it’s an absolute disgrace, I wouldn’t pay a penny back, take me to court.

@shazditta2107 Месяц назад

You are super duper individual & inspiration to all of us carers & this government is failing the public while build their own banks & never get questioned just get moved to different role or sacked. Public need raise voice how their feel on how their getting treated this is so unfair looking after your loved ones while their sick then get hit with fine.

@wordwordful Месяц назад

They have to balance the books so recoup monies from the vulnerable to off set Ukraine, Migrants, Hotels etc. The Scales of Justice are broken. Sometimes it's just a mistake the DWP make.

@suzieg9076 Месяц назад

When did the DWP become so deceptive, disgraceful.

@meelodeshmeeelo2034 Месяц назад

MP’s get caught out putting in fraudulent claims whilst on four times as much as the average wage- “ooopsie” Unpaid and overworked as it is carers accidentally claim and extra 25 p - “YOU POS GIVE THAT BACK, SEE EVERYONE THESE PEOPLE ARE THE REASON WHY YOU CAN’T GET A HOSPITAL APPOINTMENT / GP’s / AFFORD TO FEED YOUR CAT OR HEAT YOUR HOME”

@randomjasmicisrandom Месяц назад

I was a teacher and one of the shocking statistics I saw first hand is the incredible amount of children caring for family members who have significant medical needs. Now I am disabled myself, I have moderate me/cfs and I am trying to get an ill-health teacher pension. I have been turned down because “I might get better”. You don’t get better from ME/CFS. It is a lifelong condition, all the research shows that you can manage the symptoms but not recover from them. The system is completely broken. I do get benefits, drastically reduced from what I earned as a teacher, and I’m terrified that one day I’m going to be told I have to give it back.

@johnjames4834 11 дней назад

i was my brothers carer for 11 weeks while he was dying of cancer they refused me any money but i kept at it relentlessly i only got a lump sum after i had buried him

@celestialfortuna37 Месяц назад

so sorry to learn about this lady's difficulties. it is outrageous that people who have contributed to the benefits system get full benefits and many as we know scam the system. none more so than our MPs of course!

@MrZanderLaw Месяц назад

The Film ‘I Daniel Blake’ is a Brilliant Film, Its about a guy trying to claim ESA Benefit after having a Heart Attack! It is SO real, I’ve been through it all! It’s disgusting the way people are treated!!

@tikaalik Месяц назад

How incredibly vile. I can’t help think there is a sadistic glee in reporting this.

@joannedibben2352 Месяц назад

Yes it's all sadistic the government don't want to pay for careers etc they want to be rid of less abled people

@janetnaffine9508 Месяц назад

I cared for my mum with Vascular dementia, and many other problems. I still worked (reduced hours) even though I was up to her day and night. I applied for Carer’s Allowance but was told I had too much Old Age Pension as I’d worked for many years.

@MsTee349 Месяц назад

I cannot believe that something as necessary as Carers Allowance is means-tested

@lindaclifton2460 Месяц назад

Common sense is not common any more NHS need to learn this…..

@user-hd3kt1rv2i Месяц назад

What about the amount of young people, unable to claim any benefits, who care for parents. Something needs to be done. People think claiming benefits is easy and they are so wrong.

@elainealexander3043 Месяц назад

Carers allowance needs a big review, My sister and I were carers for our late mother saving the government and local authority thousands as we worked full time but sorted our hours to ensure that we were there at all times.We obviously could not get carers allowance but did not get much help from other areas either, it is stressful, emotional without the Government penalising carers, it should not be means tested.

@dean9235 22 дня назад

This government is beyond reproach. Carers save the country hundreds of billions a year.

@SandraT1107 Месяц назад

I just won't bother claiming. It puts me in a difficult financial position as I try to care for my 91 year old Mum 😢

@theyjustwantyourmoney4539 Месяц назад

Thanks for enabling comments coz such issues are very sensitive and some channels silence people’s opinions

@Whatif623 Месяц назад

You'll pay them back, and then they come back at you for the same amount again. They told me I owed them 900 and when I paid them back they told me I owed it again. They don't seem to know what they're doing!

@hayhayjenner1257 Месяц назад

The, 'lets hope you outgrow it' attitude is most certainly rife!.... Ive had the exactly same response about my disabilities recently from PIP.... Although theyve been TOLD REPEATEDLY that its a degenerative condition, but STILL they insist different.... It actually makes me extremely depressed 😔 and often leads to suicidal tendancies x

@hannahsmith-dg9jt Месяц назад

I'm exhausted, same, I don't bother with benefits , my life so complicated I'm swamped with the same, paperwork a nightmare, no resolve - given up, disgusting system for single parents and ex business owner, getting decent jobs not possible

@notthedoctor8621 Месяц назад

81 pounds for 35 hours of work is laughable

@gillianthomson905 Месяц назад

Carers that care for family are never properly recognised. We save the authorities thousands of pounds each year but as a result of this we get a pittance to live off and we don’t get our stamp paid so in later years we will miss out on the state pension we're entitled to because we haven’t paid enough into the system to get it so essentially we're dammed if we do and dammed if we don’t!

@tishmoore2732 Месяц назад

The care bill for a friend of mine is £591 per week, while family members who are obliged to care for family members have to sacrifice so much in terms of quality of life and financial security. £86 per week is not even equivalent to the cost of a days care and we are not talking about paying high hourly rates. Carers allowance should never be means tested, because family members who care for their loved ones are saving the tax payer an absolute fortune

@shanehumberstone5262 Месяц назад

There’s only one sector that gets overpaid and it’s not carers it’s politicians

@user-nq9ju7kk2m Месяц назад

Carers allowance should not be means tested in the same way that PIP isn’t.

@ymrabc Месяц назад

I am one of those unpaid careers who do not claim carer’s allowance for the reason the gentleman said, I do not want to risk having the situation of overpayment. I care for my husband and also my elderly dad who lives with us. I live on my small private pension and I know that if that pension rises it could just push me over the limit. Unpaid careers have no voice, are left to rot by this system but I totally agree with her that we do it because we love the people we care for.