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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@naomi5495 Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

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

@simonmcglary Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

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

@user-yn7ll3qz1p 29 күн бұрын

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

@Fordster76 29 күн бұрын

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

@rebeccamondloch4265 Ай бұрын

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

@tkralva.6668 Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

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

@baldieman64 21 күн бұрын

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.

@goodluck-mx4qr Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

well said

@wleon4068 Ай бұрын

Well said indeed.

@Vinny-Zen Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

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

@irenedavo3768 Ай бұрын

Son would have his own Benefit include PIP?

@wordwordful Ай бұрын

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

@wordwordful Ай бұрын

@@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 Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

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

@julianash4663 Ай бұрын

To right

@Naturegarden236 Ай бұрын

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

@wendyford2252 Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

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

@dh2032 Ай бұрын

@@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,

@63mckenzie Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

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

@Jeannette-op5qe Ай бұрын

What a scandal!! Unforgivable.

@alphafemme8154 Ай бұрын

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

@DrMontague 21 күн бұрын

I know carers who voted bojo!

@Raven4508 Ай бұрын

The DWP are disgusting...

@wleon4068 Ай бұрын

The Tory DWP. Yes, absolutely.

@DrMontague 21 күн бұрын

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!

@ruthie_sos6600 Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

17 Thousand a week?

@ruthie_sos6600 Ай бұрын

@@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

@SteveWebb Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

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

@nathandraper4763 Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

Take back the "civil service" from Privatised outsourcing companies

@priscillaroberts7945 Ай бұрын

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

@sidsod1616 Ай бұрын

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

@Rick-xp5sy Ай бұрын

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

@sharonhubbard9281 Ай бұрын

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

@dh2032 Ай бұрын

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

@krg8774 Ай бұрын

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

@sorayacroton1399 Ай бұрын

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

@sorayacroton1399 Ай бұрын

Such as pip

@juggalomuthafacko1 Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

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

@grunge_surf_witch_uk9130 Ай бұрын

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!

@user-oj9mk6hn4h Ай бұрын

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

@TheVideoGamesHistorian Ай бұрын

Carers should be paid a living wage .

@acquiesce100 Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

1000 a week?

@patrickfegerline Ай бұрын

@@meosian1416he is delusional

@wleon4068 Ай бұрын

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

@seabreezedesigns. Ай бұрын

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

@MissCBwasadancer3 Ай бұрын

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. 😢

@rosemarygriffin2184 Ай бұрын

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.

@Dinadino994 Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

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.

@Blackjax137 Ай бұрын

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

@63mckenzie Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

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

@reachandler3655 Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

You also get taxed if your claiming universal credit

@kevinhay3778 Ай бұрын

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

@joannedibben2352 Ай бұрын

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!

@krg8774 Ай бұрын

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

@wordwordful Ай бұрын

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 21 күн бұрын

@@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.

@nicolahall27 Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

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.

@Zefyna Ай бұрын

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.

@BethsiderTavares-ug4sv Ай бұрын

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.

@blooddevil0 Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

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

@ScotchMist-lx1gk Ай бұрын

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

@Natalie81970 Ай бұрын

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

@rarecockneyguvnor4945 Ай бұрын

Carers are treated like dirt ,this is not right.

@leej-wp9ft Ай бұрын

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

@morizwan123 Ай бұрын

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

@wordwordful Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

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.

@tinakane3750 Ай бұрын

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

@thepm3972 28 күн бұрын

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

@kiriseraph9674 Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

@@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.

@Jlk-rm1jv Ай бұрын

I'm not even surprised about this.

@gavinsmith9564 Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

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

@noramartin96 Ай бұрын

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

@dogzero1 Ай бұрын

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

@jellymulder Ай бұрын

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

@oneleggedwonder1 Ай бұрын

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

@dragonvalo Ай бұрын

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 29 күн бұрын

Yes.

@captainjamesjamesy1053 Ай бұрын

Private school club making laws for ordinary people

@Autumnfalls1972 Ай бұрын

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

@bernedettekuteyi3843 Ай бұрын

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

@JustB3NJI Ай бұрын

This government is mean for sport. This is sickening.

@priscillaroberts7945 Ай бұрын

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?

@dialemmaz Ай бұрын

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!

@Missmambo12 Ай бұрын

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.

@AbigailBrown-wk7xl 28 күн бұрын

It's disgusting how carers are treated . Shocking

@chantalsscaleisafibber Ай бұрын

She is💯 accurate on this issue

@assiyaq4346 Ай бұрын

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

@keith2507 Ай бұрын

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

@rosewest5168 Ай бұрын

£83 a week is shocking!

@Trish-ql9kz Ай бұрын

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

@onyx7onyx Ай бұрын

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

@nickxcore74 Ай бұрын

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.

@Victoria_2005 29 күн бұрын

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

@ClaireWill71uk 28 күн бұрын

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.

@christopherforster6555 Ай бұрын

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

@andynotdave Ай бұрын

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

@grahamforshaw3837 Ай бұрын

Disgusting, this mother has been badly treated,

@user-it3vo8yu2t Ай бұрын

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

@TanyaRando Ай бұрын

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

@captaincaveman1234 Ай бұрын

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

@joannedibben2352 Ай бұрын

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 22 күн бұрын

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

@crafte164 Ай бұрын

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

@jamgart6880 Ай бұрын

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.

@virginiaalderson4793 Ай бұрын

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 !.

@psychokittie Ай бұрын

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.

@stevebarmore3509 Ай бұрын

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

@RebeccaJadee 20 сағат бұрын

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

@Morgan08-mx5hx 20 күн бұрын

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.

@user-sc9rw1ge1y 11 күн бұрын

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.

@shazditta2107 Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

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.

@celestialfortuna37 Ай бұрын

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!

@tikaalik Ай бұрын

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

@joannedibben2352 Ай бұрын

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

@meelodeshmeeelo2034 Ай бұрын

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”

@fintamaria2429 Ай бұрын

😢😢😢

@janetnaffine9508 Ай бұрын

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.

@MrZanderLaw Ай бұрын

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!!

@randomjasmicisrandom Ай бұрын

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.

@susandow5178 Ай бұрын

I've been put off raking a small Jon because I can't face the worry of getting into arrears in any way

@SandraT1107 Ай бұрын

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 😢

@suzieg9076 Ай бұрын

When did the DWP become so deceptive, disgraceful.

@MohammedMagdi-yh3kr Ай бұрын

As a Muslim, I wish this lady to get everything she wants in her life. I pray for you

@kiriseraph9674 Ай бұрын

Just so long as you vote for change as well

@almalaga3924 Ай бұрын

religion have nothing to do with all this

@janpowell7536 Ай бұрын

@@almalaga3924 who’s talking religion except you

@MohammedMagdi-yh3kr Ай бұрын

I know it's purely medical.

@user-hd3kt1rv2i Ай бұрын

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.

@alfredaelenatanase2300 Ай бұрын

❤

@christophergray1977 Ай бұрын

I’m not disputing anything that has been said here but it would be nice to know all the financials concerned in these cases.

@ohno521 Ай бұрын

Standing by his principles

@johnjames4834 10 күн бұрын

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

@MsTee349 Ай бұрын

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

@theyjustwantyourmoney4539 Ай бұрын

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

@dean9235 21 күн бұрын

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

@hayhayjenner1257 29 күн бұрын

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

@elainealexander3043 Ай бұрын

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.

@gillianthomson905 Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

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