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Help if you regularly spend time caring for someone. Includes Universal Credit.
Apply for Carer's Allowance - money to help you look after someone who needs to be cared for. Apply online or use form DS700.
You could get £81.90 a week if you care for someone at least 35 hours a…
You may be eligible for Carer’s Allowance if you, the person you care for…
Carer’s Allowance can affect the other benefits that both you and the…
Before you apply make sure you have your: National Insurance number (if…
You must report changes in your circumstances if you’re claiming or have…
You can work and get Carer’s Allowance, as long as you spend at least 35…
This guidance explains how the Carers Social Action Support Fund works for social action projects to support unpaid family carers.
Get advice and training if you are an employer and you want to retain and recruit employees who are also carers - telephone, email, website
If you care for someone, you can have an assessment to see what might help make your life easier.
How to access social care, and support if you, or someone you care for is blind.
Steps being taken to ensure that the Civil Service is a best practice employer, providing the right culture and support to enable carers to combine a successful working life with their caring role.
Includes Carer's Allowance, disabled children and disability day care centres
Report makes a number of recommendations highlighting the economic and social benefits of supporting carers in the workplace.
Support, information and advice for carers.
£20 million invested in innovative projects supporting people in adult social care and unpaid carers across the country.
The plan sets out how the government will improve support for carers in England over the next 2 years.
Support and benefits you can get if you're looking after someone else's child, court orders - kinship care, private fostering, friends and family care
Guidance and resources for carers and care providers to help people understand and access screening.
Information on how organisations can apply for a share of £5 million funding to improve support for carers.
Chapters 6 and 7.
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