How to claim carer's allowance

Carer’s Allowance is a benefit for people who are giving regular and substantial care to disabled people. Carer’s Allowance is a taxable benefit and forms part of your taxable income.

Check if you can get Carer’s Allowance

You can usually get Carer’s Allowance if all of the following apply:

• you're aged 16 or over

• you're not in full time education

• you spend at least 35 hours a week caring for a disabled person

• you don't earn more than £151 a week from employment or self-employment – after deductions such as income tax, National Insurance and half of your pension contributions

The person you're caring for must get one of the following benefits, called 'qualifying benefits':

• Attendance Allowance

• Constant Attendance Allowance

• the middle or highest rate of the care component of Disability Living Allowance

• the standard or enhanced rate of the daily living component of Personal Independence Payment

• Armed Forces Independence Payment

• the standard or enhanced rate of the daily living component of Adult

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