Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced in the Budget that more people would be able to access Carers Allowance from next April
Around 60,000 more people will be able to access a benefit worth more than £330 a month after the government announced a major change in the Autumn Budget.
READ MORE: Sixteen key highlights from Rachel Reeves' Budget 2024 including wage rise and new vape tax Also from April next year, benefits will be uprated in line with inflation at 1.7 per cent. That means Carers Allowance will be worth £83.29 a week - around £332 a month. The government said it will mean that more than 60,000 additional carers will be able to access Carer’s Allowance. It added that around 70 per cent of people claiming the benefit are women.The move has been welcome by charities. Helen Walker, chief executive of Carers UK, said: "It’s fantastic to hear that the government will increase the earnings threshold for Carer’s Allowance allowing 60,000 more carers juggling work and care to access this benefit.
Money saving expert Martin Lewis previously called for a taper system to be introduced to Carers Allowance so that carers did not lose the whole of their benefit for going only slightly over the earnings threshold. He was among a number of campaigners calling for the DWP to address the issue of carers being sent demands for repayments, sometimes worth thousands of pounds, because they had been unaware they had passed the earnings threshold.
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