staff-040: What happens to Carers Allowance if someone is caring for two or more people?

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Review needs

• Complete multiple-person caring rule, qualifying conditions, election/competing-claim distinction and relevant timing.
• One carer supporting multiple people differs from multiple carers supporting one person.
• Care hours per person, qualifying benefits and other claimants are unspecified.

Candidate evidence

source-c038: DMG Vol 10 Ch 60: Carer’s Allowance — PDF page 7

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One carer caring for several people; read with paragraph 60043 on preceding page and avoid confusing it with multiple carers.

60044 From 17.8.93, where a person who is caring for two or more severely disabled people claims CA


1. the hours spent in caring are not added together and


2. there will only be entitlement to CA if a person spends at least 35 hours a week caring for one of the
severely disabled people and


3. any time spent in caring for the other severely disabled person is not taken into account 1.


                                                                                   1 SS (ICA) Regs, reg 4(1A)



Breaks in care of the severely disabled person

[See DMG Memo 06/20]


60045 A week when a person does not satisfy the “caring condition” is treated as a week in which that
condition is satisfied, if that person


1. has only temporarily ceased to satisfy the “caring condition” and


2. has satisfied the caring condition for at least 14 weeks in a 26 week period. The 26 week period ends
with the first week that person no longer satisfied the caring condition and


3. would have satisfied it for at least 22 weeks in the 26 week period described in DMG 60045 2., but for
the fact that


      3.1 either that person or


      3.2 the severely disabled person


was undergoing medical or other treatment, as an in-patient in a hospital or similar institution 1.


                                                                                     1 SS (ICA) Regs, reg 4(2)


60046 The effect of DMG 60045 is that a temporary break or series of temporary breaks in care may be
ignored. Entitlement to CA will continue provided that the temporary breaks do not amount in total to
more than

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source-c036: DMG Vol 10 Ch 60: Carer’s Allowance — PDF page 3

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Carer eligibility conditions; relevant current jurisdiction, age, earnings, study and benefit rules need reconciliation.

60025 [See DMG memo 12/23] [See DMG memo 12-25] The conditions for entitlement are that the
claimant


1. is engaged in caring for a severely disabled person for any day1 (see DMG 60035 - 60042) and


2. is regularly and substantially engaged in caring for that person 2 (see DMG 60035 - 60042) and


3. is not gainfully employed3 (see DMG 60051 - 60052) and


4. is aged 16 or over4 (see DMG 60058) and


5. is not in FTE5 (see DMG 60068 - 60081) and


6. satisfies prescribed conditions of residence or presence in GB6 (see DMG Chapter 07 Part 2).

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source-c037: DMG Vol 10 Ch 60: Carer’s Allowance — PDF page 4

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Qualifying disability benefits and multiple carers; preserve cited memo dependencies.

60033 [see DMG memo 02/25] “Severely disabled person” means a person for whom


1. AA1 or


2. the care component of DLA at the highest or middle rate or pension age disability
payment2 or

3. CAA payable as


       3.1 an increase of IIDB3 or


       3.2 an increase of an old scheme allowance4 or


       3.3 an increase of WC5 or


       3.4 a WDisP6 or


4. the daily living component of PIP at the standard or enhanced rate 7 or

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Observed retrieval

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