carer's

Carers UK is calling for a review of the carer's allowance, which is paid at a rate of £55.55 a week to people who act as carers for at least 35 hours a week, and is urging the government and local councils to think again about planned cuts to disability benefits or social care services.

Carers save the country £119bn a year 2011

Quite apart from what services your brother accesses, your parents have a legal right to a carer's assessment.

Problem solved 2011

Hull city council has agreed to pay the aunt £7,665, a quarter of the sum she would have received as a carer's allowance for the time the children lived with her.

Hull council failures left children at risk from mother's violent partner 2011

Yes I know that we as women are taught to be carer's and nurtures to put others before ourselves.

Sophie Gold: Women Hold Up Half the Sky Sophie Gold 2011

Other family members may purport to care, and indeed many offer jolly activities, but it is the daily, dogged discipline of a carer's routine that needs respite.

Letters: A caricatured view of poor parents 2011

Yes I know that we as women are taught to be carer's and nurtures to put others before ourselves.

Sophie Gold: Women Hold Up Half the Sky Sophie Gold 2011

His role is officially recognised by payment of carer's allowance of £53.90 a week.

Elderly carers: how will the state cope when they are gone? 2010

Annie is particularly complimentary about a carer's support worker provided by the charity Crossroads Care.

Elderly carers: how will the state cope when they are gone? 2010

Scrap carer's allowance (£1. 6bn) and ask people to claim income support?

Breakdown of welfare spending: what to cut? 2010

A woman in her late fifties whose only income is carer's allowance for caring for her elderly father. had been paying £20 a month for four years towards council tax arrears.

Right of entry removed by New Labour: Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Bill FIDO The Dog 2009