Thank you for the info, i will try and find a post office later and do a small food shopping and then back home.

I care for my 82 dad, just had a electric/gas bill from british gas yesterday, paper bill needs to be paid by 1st april i usually goto the post office or a bank and pay there, now the brown stuff as hit the fan and government said we are on lock down from last night, are the banks or post office shu...

Now it's April just check my income support looks like it's frozen, well they up my care allowance and took it straight off my income support, what a bad joke, government do like to kick us carers, rant over.

I also heard about this on the news this morning, but you have to ask, why are they doing this now, the converatives never do anything out of the kindness of there heart, they are more right wing than they have ever been, so what are they doing it for, what are they upto. A sweetener for a possible ...

I found this on a government PDF web site https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/524361/ds700-carers-allowance-notes.pdf While you are getting Carer’s Allowance, you can have a work-focused interview with a personal adviser at Jobcentre Plus. You do not have to hav...

Hi all new to this forum . Would like some advice I went to a work Focused interveiw today and the lady that did the interveiw said to me that the rules have changed and all carers have to go to these work focus interviews every 3 or 6wks because they want to engage with carers more and give us opt...

Just like to say that I've had a reply from the DWP that my application for CA was successful. To think I may not have even thought to claim had they not treated my wife so badly going through her PIP assessment. @Geoff_1602 Just wondered how long did it take for a confirmation from DWP about your ...

Any increase in CA is an improvement. Obviously we would all like a lot more, especially for heavy end carers. Frankly, raising the CA from £62 to even £162 or £262 will not solve that either - the real problem is far more structural than that. Somehow, we need to stop lazy bone-idle individuals ac...

Before you read this, i must warn you, make sure you have plenty of tissues at hand you will need them, very sad story.

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The rick get ricker and the poorer get poorer, simple as that with these cons in government, and the cons think we are all in it together, but the poorer are in it more than some.