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Originally Posted by Taf
Carers Allowance = £62.10 per week.
Private Residential Care at a local OAP home (which is about to shut because they "don't make enough profit") = £380 per week for ambulatory residents, almost double for those with mobility problems or bedridden.
Council OAP homes also closing soon.
Carers Allowance was under scrutiny to be "curtailed or restricted" in the next budget before Camoron stepped in.
And that's just the pensioners, growing in number every year, let alone the disabled of all ages.
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If it was possible for most families to manage on a single income then I would suggest the carers allowance was a worthwhile gift ,as things are and given most average families need two incomes to get by then the carers allowance is an insult if it is meant to replace a lost income for a family caring for a sick or elderly relative .Some would say it is the families duty to care for their own and to some extent I would agree but when the goal posts have been moved to the extent that they have then the duty falls on society as a whole IMO