Carers and the person that is disabled are treated as criminals by this government but MPs mates that actually scammed tax payers money are treated as heroes. How these ministers sleep at night is beyond me. Absolutely disgusting

@SMGAPR8

15 күн бұрын

Absolutely Spot on, a lot to sort out, Systemic Bums on seats.

@PhyzzFizz

14 күн бұрын

they sleep because they know you will do nothing about it

@lindapayne1595

14 күн бұрын

I don't think any carers are looked after by any Government. Not by this one, and they weren't under Blair, won't be under the next Government, so why the whining now.

@mycatspethooman5590

14 күн бұрын

And now they're picking on the disabled, outrageous

@Billy67

13 күн бұрын

Is it correct that carers allowance is deducted from the person who is being cared for? If that is correct? then the DWP should return the money that was deducted from their benefits.

It costs the state around £86k per year to provide full time care for a disabled person when carers give up or die due to undue pressure and lack of respite. Carers hols up this country - they save us £163 billion per year, yet they are treated with no dignity.

@Darren-pq5oc

14 күн бұрын

It's time care wasn't the tax payers responsibility, why should others pay

@sammymillinchip8456

14 күн бұрын

It's true I feel like a non person, I'm worthless in society's eyes in fact I've become so isolated looking after my son hardly anyone knows I exist even. All I do is take care of him, I cant work, I rarely get a break and I'm now quite poorly. No one cares, no one actually cares 😢

@Darren-pq5oc

14 күн бұрын

@@sammymillinchip8456 people used to care until they asked for help and didn't get it, but they are told they should help others, the uk has told a lot of people to get stuffed and now those people are telling the uk to get stuffed

Why did this report not mention the pittance (£81.90) carers get paid for providing 35 hours a week. Plus they are not allowed to earn over £151. How do you expect someone to live on £233 a week. So not only do the have to provide 35 hours of care, then have to work another 12 hours. The system is shameful and disgusting. These carers get no thanks and very little assistance.

care in this country would breakdown without unpaid carers!!!!

I challenge Victoria Atkins and Mel Stride to try to get a care worker to look after one of their loved ones for £81.90 a week.

@cloudyskies1323

14 күн бұрын

That’s a days pay. Absurd to think that anyone can survive in good standing from this allowance.

@pks15032

14 күн бұрын

Basic cleaner is £85 an hour.

@Mike-bh4bh

14 күн бұрын

It's not even 200 pounds a month on universal credit!!!! Shame on UC

AND THEY ARE ASKING CARER WHO ARE CARING ABOUT THEIR RELATIVES TO HAVE THE POWER OF ATTORNEY ON THE MONEY THEY RECEIVED!! IN RETURN YOU NEED TO PAY MORE THAN 1000 YEARLY TO THEM TO COVER THE POWER OF ATTORNEY WHY IS THAT? THEY ARE GIVING IN THE RIGHT HAND AND THEY ARE TAKING IT IN THE LEFT HAND!! SO SHAME 😳

After 13 very stressful years of caring for my disabled son, i became so ill, my physical and mental health went downhill. That was in 2016. Now in 2024 i am no longer able to stand for very long without pain and rely heavily on my husband who has taken over a lot of the physical care of my son plus helping me and his elderly and frail parents. He will end up like me at some point because he is under so much stress. We would love to get out of debt but every time something breaks and need replacing in the home, it just adds to the debt.

@kelvingriffiths6017

14 күн бұрын

Im getting there. 15 years yesterday. I know the health problems you speak of too.

Government again picking on the poor and vulnerable 🤬

The government was it not responsible for removing people with special needs from institutions that were responsible for their welfare, care in the community. The burden is now transferred to carers who it seems are penalised in this way! Why?

WARNING - Being a carer you may loose your home and any inheritance.

@michaelcoles7588

14 күн бұрын

I know it’s shocking

@tillyt4054

14 күн бұрын

How ?

@cecycan

14 күн бұрын

How?

These carers have saved this country ££s. This is terrible, all that money given out during Covid to very rich employers, and to Tory buddies🤬.

who's that minister who recently slandered an academic on her twitter account was found guilty in court with costs of around £90,000 but the government is picking up the bill on her behalf ? She must earn over a £100,000 as a minister but a carer has to pay out of pocket but she gets a free pass ! Is that the rule now a minister can personally defame someone but the government takes responsibility ! ABSOLUTELY SICKING .

If your considering being a carer DON'T. you will receive zero support. Your health and finances will suffer dramatically. You'll probably end up in debt. Worst case scenario, you may suffer a heart attack, then get demanding DWP notice demanding £10k overpayment back. You will be smeared a criminal & DWP will 😅 immediate repayment.

@sammymillinchip8456

14 күн бұрын

This statement is so true sadly.

Get the conservatives out

We seem to be giving rises to people who are already on high wages and ignoring those who are willing to help save the the health service millions .

@lamestreammedia3154

14 күн бұрын

Like the tax dod ging Ka te garra way that doesn't want to pay her career bill?

The government shouldn't be so hard to people on Carers Allowance, we have an extremely hard time. They should up it by an extra £200 a week and this government, they can't be trusted with anything for that matter makes me sick to the back teeth.

I am entitled to carers allowance most weeks, but am too terrified of making a mistake to claim it at all. And what about those of us who care for more than one family member with serious illness or disability? Trying to do that, earn enough to live on and fund their needs is crippling.

This issue HAS to be viewed in the wider context of growing poverty and inequality within the UK. Successive UK Governments (both Tory and Labour) have failed to address the severe challenges faced by carers, just as they have both failed to address issues of the housing crisis, and the rising cost of living crisis where wages are not keeping up with inflation/increases in mortgages, rents, energy bills, etc. After WW2 Clem Attlee's Labour ushered in an era where there was proper taxation on large and multinational companies, which formed the bulk of the money raised to pay for the NHS, State Education, the building of Council Houses, etc. Both Labour and Tory governments adhered to the Mixed Economy model which created a greater degree of care and equality than had been seen in prior decades. But when Thatcher came to power in 1979, this all changed, from the Mixed Economy system to the Neoliberal (extreme Free Market) economic system where taxation on large and multinational companies was greatly reduced, and public services and utilities, along with Councils, were given far less support from the state. We have now reached a point where inequality is the worst it has been since the Napoleonic wars, and where 4.3 Million children are now in poverty - all thanks to Neoliberalism. Wht the UK needs - desperately - is a government prepared to tackle these issues and properly funding the solutions. In order for the government to raise the sums required necessitates a SIGNIFICANT rise in the levels of taxation levied on large and multinational corporations such as: * Shell * BP * Novo Nordisk * GlaxoSmithKlein * Apple * Amazon * Microsoft * Pfiezer * SERCO * Thames Water * Southern Water * British Gas * SSE Sadly, both Reeves and Starmer have signalled that they have ZERO intention of doing any such thing. It therefore seems unlikely that carers are going to get the help they so desperately need, any time soon.

dwp could check every two months for overpayments instead of leaving it 18 months too check for overpayments

@timelwell7002

14 күн бұрын

Or - how's about this for an idea - carers allowance should NOT be means tested, AND sould be far more generous. The money to fund this could easily be gained from an increase in taxation to large and multinational corporations.

@welsh-3286

13 күн бұрын

@@timelwell7002 how about this stop moaning get on with yoir job

@timelwell7002

13 күн бұрын

@@welsh-3286 I'm not moaning. I was voicing sympathy for carers (you know, that thing where you identify with peope who are going through a hard time). I used to be a carer myself, although I never claimed carers' allowance. I am now semi retired - I'm in my late 60s. From your response it sounds as though you are unable or unwilling to sympathise will other people. You may come to think differently if you ever need to be cared for yourself in the future.

I worked as an unpaid carer for my mother as well as working nights.( Two years alone!) It was exhausting! I made contact with a social worker and she brought in a team of carers who were paid. Some would just make my mother a cup of tea then go!? I would still have to do some shopping for her and sometimes clean my mother up when she got into a mess. Because she was very frail and almost blind. My mother became too frail to remain at her home ( rented) And had to go into a care home. Where she spent the last year of her life.

What about the actual unpaid carers who have been refused DLA for their children because hidden disabilities are ignored. You are not officially a carer unless your child recieves at least mrc so those who are wrongly refused awards are completely stuck - can't work because of caring responsibilities but have been refused access to the benefits they are entitled to.

No foreign power hates UK citizens as much as their own government. It is perfectly easy to implement a rule stating that where the DWP doesn't warn a claimant despite having the information no repayment is due. I am not liable personally. It is just obviously fair.

The majority of these people will be on Universal Credit which deducts the full amount of carers allowance from the benefit, so if they were not entitled to carers then they would need UC recalculating thus no loss to the taxpayer and no need to pay back, and as the change in earnings will be reported to UC aka DWP then there should not be a legal claim against the carers.

Thank You ,they should be paid and also higher weekly money ut is very hard being a carer and saved a lot of DWP money in not having to pay 24hrs care with nurses,Help more with carers .

My son is my carer and he can't get paid to look after me

Tories 14 years in power Tories still have a majority Tories doing nothing critical in parliament But all want the 'opposition' to magically solve it?

@oh-hello

14 күн бұрын

Someone has to hope it will change. 😢

@Sonya_Makepeace

14 күн бұрын

Don't think Labour will be any better. They are all controlled by the same demonic entity.

Carers allowance is £81.90 per week whether you're caring for one person or multiple people, its a disgraceful amount when you consider how much these people are saving the state.

WE NEED TO DO PETITION FOR THIS MATTER PLEASE 🙏

I urge every unpaid carer in our country to come together on our next bank holiday and bring the person you are caring for to your local A&E, give their names and addresses in and tell them you cannot and will not do it anymore. Leave them your telephone number, NOK details and walk away. Tell them it’s carer breakdown and refuse to answer any questions. See how long it takes for the government to fall. The person you are caring for must be on board with this and the NHS cannot refuse to take you. Even if one tenth of you undertake this there will be chaos, an emergency meeting of parliament called and watch the current system collapse and I guarantee you that you will be victorious. Good luck to you all. Be brave, be strong and go for it as the people of Britain will back you to the hilt.

Absolutely disgusting when you see how corrupt the people at the top are. Stamping on the vulnerable !

That's less than Sunak's wife has avoided in tax while living here with her husband and children by pretending to be NON DOM. Let the carers off and pursue Sunak and his wife for hundreds of millions of pounds.

@poppy1779

14 күн бұрын

Big time! I fully agree.

When the carer becomes unwell to a certain point, they can then become a danger to the sick person.

No one cares about us unpaid carers. My healths deteriorating fast and im exhausted. I love my kids with all my heart. I have 2 disabled kids, now grown up and have been a mum/carer for 26 years, mostly as a single parent. Ill drop dead before anyone notices how exhausted i am, and its not for lack of trying to tell people. Id have loved the chance to work, my future looks very bleak, but apart from the exhaustion and stress theres no one to help me if i wanted to go back to work and it probably wouldnt be worth my while if i did. Life can be very hard but i keep going cos my son needs me and i want to look after him but bottom line is im struggling on every level and have no idea how long i can keep this up. I wish the government cared as much about us as they do about illegal immigrants.

None of it matters to celebrities or MP 's till it happens to them

Why doesn't the government official live on £86 , pay all the bills and expenses, find out first hand , some of these ill patients have paid taxes into the system , don't just sit in the offices and make unworkable policies? It ruins peoples lives.

And when you get to pension age your carers allowance stops So you then do it for nothing but your older and probably less able to do it, so what happens to your loved one then? We are still caring.

I care for my sister and it feels like I have done something wrong

@sammymillinchip8456

14 күн бұрын

I know how you feel. It's like our lives are so unimportant compared to everyone else's!

I am a pensioner I look after my son I cannot get paid carers allowance

Interesting interview, thanks for sharing

After 7 years I'm as confused as my disabled Brother.🧠

Does it change depending on who we vote for? Lots of words and distractions of blame, but does anything change?

Help us Kate. Please.

We are all on your side love

Carry on caring, stop claiming carers allowance, make sure your councils are responsible for caring, carers need more money to look after relatives, the whole system needs changing, unless those who should provide care start doing it because of the laws they have to follow, we will be taken advantage of,

Its got nothing to do with working from home. You use a work PC or Laptop, plugged into the same system as you would be in the office. They will be able to work in exactly the same way. It us the system, rules and regulations that are wrong. The Government has to take responsibility for that.

You can elevate yourself to having an income equivalent to 23% of legal minimum wage for a 45 hour week ,35 hours care, 10 hours work at minimum wage .

The system is disgraceful…people and their families have paid into this country and are left in poverty. Which is a far cry than those who illegally come to our country and are given everything. Those who have no care for our people or our country. Our country is broken.

When it comes to a relative to care ? Why Government take away from the carer allowance? How may unpaid carers are out doing their best under the most difficult circumstances? How much does it cost the government when there are 6-8 careers allocated to an individual person ? These carers are not qualified or speak English? These carers are recruited by untrained agencies , they are paid regardless whether they do their jobs properly or not? Whether they turn up or not? These individuals comes into homes to care for one patient ? Who is vetting them? A carers are not supposed to have a life of their own? Some carers are on low income, not enough to sustain themselves in reality? If you earn a penny extra? You are penalised. Having to deal with the stigma attached to being on low paid jobs and being a carer at the same time? I have witnessed graduate being carering for terminally ill person without claiming? What's the government doing to solve this issue?

Is it correct that carers allowance is deducted from the person who is being cared for? If that is correct? Then the DWP should return the money that was deducted from their benefits.

Also when you reach pension age but are still caring as I do for my 40 year old daughter they stop your carers allowance as it exceeds what you are allowed. So I straight away lost a portion of my pension.

Breaking point happens years before climbing up walls.

I just got hit with this BS myself. £400 a month i have to pay back cause of their mistake. Scumbags end of.

They treat carers with contemt if it wasn't for them most of them wouldn't be alive

@SheeplessShepherd

14 күн бұрын

Wow, you think they care

I care for two wonderful adult children with disabilities ( autism abd Multiple sclerosis ) and get nothing because both have had their PIP taken away from them . Apparentky they are both suddenly cured of these life-long worsening conditions and are ehtitled to zero. As am I. Their 'reports' were completely fictucious, but i couidn't afford the £750 to have their recordings professionally transcribed. We went to court last time, it took over a year and akthough my son's pip was temorariky restored i was refused back oayment if carers allowance and the carer element on universal credit. Im now on a pension and even worse off!

No one is mentioning the funding for the person requiring care, it is the overall amount coming into the house that needs to be looked at, for example motobility allowance

@kaytoday666

14 күн бұрын

That is based on the needs of the disabled person. Carers need to eat, buy clothing etc too. How would carers needs be met?

People who care for people in this country are the least looked after

1998..I WAS ON £3.50p an hour.

Carer is not a job according to dwp.but if you earn ought elsewhere its illegal over ?£100?

They just like to rely on people doing it out of love, which people end up doing. I know it would not happen, but if every carer handed the people they are looking after over to the state.. the government then will have to something.

I was lucky other carers were on £1.70p an our 1998...no minimum.wage then...indian owned nursing home.

Disgusting just brutal

If well of and good earnings then do not need the allowance

my friend is disabled room is is a life time prison sentence pian level is like being tortured every day . Government would love to get rid of us permeant. That's is how this my friend feels Disabled money is a joke.

So fake this woman

good point these phone contact's systems need to be removed from every system . guverment and industrial it is a hard task just to contact . there is only one reason for this system to be used by the time you have rung three times . pressed 5 or 6 different choices hitting the wrong one then getting it right . you wait for the answer from a person and you get a machine or it go's dead .

Two pound an hour wow

For the goverment to ask questions about carers is wrong

It's because government can

As cruel as it seems, every one should stop caring for their loved ones, and go to social services, then court to force councils to go bust,

@kaytoday666

14 күн бұрын

Absolutely not. It would be irresponsible to stop caring for those who cannot care for themselves. Vulnerable people would be irreversibly harmed, or even die.

@CM-vt9lz

14 күн бұрын

I don't trust the council to touch my daughter

CORRUPTION RULES

i find this one sided let us look at this from the other side corer's are paid . but there is another thing as well how was taking care of this person when she wasn't ? it is sad but in the end you are paid to do a job if you can afford to work . if you can pay for a corer and work way do tax payer's have to help and you not pay the tax? we need to look into this on a basis scheme you get different amounts depending on the situation it needs to be fair but not a blanket payment like every guverment hand out .

Where has covid gone ???

Be nice if Kate paid her tax bill

No one actually cares about this woman, weird isn’t it?

Mean

Jacki Smith the war criminal.

يجب إعادة تقييم الأعمال بشكل دوري كل سنه بناء على التغييرات الاقتصاديه والاجتماعيه

@SimonSmith-yd6tt

15 күн бұрын

when a human being is considered as a business unit rather than a life then you know your values are broken

what a shameless grifter she is 🤦🏽‍♂️

Big YAWNZ

They know the rules and break them

thats the job to care for relations,just do it

@CM-vt9lz

14 күн бұрын

And how you supposed to support yourself if you can't get a job?????

Funny how garraway can't stop going on about money for carers.........but never mentioned it..... before her husband became a cabbage.............

@sandimoo

15 күн бұрын

Well of course! Her experience has opened her eyes quite understandably!

@pauloates5972

14 күн бұрын

Offensive comment,

@missknowsitall8705

14 күн бұрын

I can't stand this woman

@lamestreammedia3154

14 күн бұрын

She also owes millions in tax. And doesn't want to pay her carer bill even though she is a millionaire tax Dodger. She is now voice of the people. The socialist millionaire that cries about paying her share. An expert on benefits from a millionaire.

@lamestreammedia3154

14 күн бұрын

Tax Dodg er. Multiple companies wound up owing millions. She is not one of the people. Far from it.

Oh look, its the derek grifter. ⚱️