We all care if its for young kids looking after disabled parent young brothers / sisters looking after each other because parents cant cope husbands wives looking after each other be they young or old, sons daughters looking after elderly / disabled parents some times both parents as i did for over 10 years who cares only carers care we know how to look after our own family members and we should be rewarded for what we do as a carer, if its for young or old we save n.h.s. billions in my own case my mother has been hospitilised many times due to various illnesses but as she has a carer at home able to cope she is discharged sooner rather than later this helps with bed blocking and as a carer looking after some one of any age you will hopefully prevent them having accidents in the first place when you see n.h.s. fighting over cash re health needs social needs its just a joke if you are ill and cant do basic needs as a result of an illness its a health need if you are aged as they say and need general care thats social need. so who cares carers do we fight for all carers not just carers from our own groups take pensioners i dont have long till i draw pension so i would lose my carers allowance and get state pension ive been fighting to get this overlapping rule scrapped but what worries government we have many o/rules and they are woried that every other person would want same .
the carers allowance will never be increased and its very simple (bit like me) if the allowance was say just doubled to £100 per week its not a lot but it might just be enough for carers who at the moment work and share their caring but dont get the c/a to give up work and claim carers allowance to double the allowance would cost 1 billion thats for the 700-000 who claim it now governments are not stupid (like me) they know the more we get the more people will move on to the carers allowance .
discuss