06-09-2010, 13:31
(06-09-2010 06:45 )Sooky™ Wrote: [ -> ](06-09-2010 05:29 )Bluearmy71 Wrote: [ -> ]Carers Allowance is actually paid to the person with the illness or disability and then intern paid on to the person providing the care.
You're wrong - it's paid to the Carer
Ummmmmmm no Sooky I am not wrong and technically neither are you! Carers Allowance is paid to the person in receipt of the benefit so she/he can then pay for the care.....when an appointed person then becomes the carer the money (which we all agree is a pittance) is then taken from the Ill or Disabled persons benefit and then transferred to the carers name, so for example.......the person in receipt of the benefit gets £150 and then appoints the carer, the carer then will receive £50 of this (the care component of the benefit) and as long as the appointed person remains the carer it will be paid to their bank account, thus taking £50 off of the benefit reducing the person who claims the benefit to £100.
Its basically 6 of 1 and half dozen of the other that's why at no point I said you were wrong!