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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter
My response was to say that I would bet my life that this parent would gladly swap every penny of his weekly £62.10 Carers Allowance in return for a fit and healthy child. I've not yet met a parent who wouldn't.
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Please do not forget that Carers Allowance is both taxable and counted as income for benefits.
We are now in the situation that I have started to receive small pensions, and added to the C.A. my wife and I receive, puts us over the limit for any Income Support at all, and vastly reduced Rent and Poll Tax benefits. And it gets worse when Universal Credit starts "to act as incentive to get into work".
We're already "working" as full time Carers you twonks!