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To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions if he will uprate the income threshold for carers allowance in line with increases in the minimum wage.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions if he will uprate the income threshold for carers allowance in line with increases in the minimum wage.
The Government keeps the earnings limit under review and will consider whether an increase is warranted and affordable.
The earnings rule in carer's allowance allows carers to maintain links with the workplace by allowing recipients to work and earn up to £100 per week, net of allowable expenses. This means that some carers can earn in excess of the limit and still be entitled to carer's allowance.
The increase in the national minimum wage will only affect those carers who claim carer's allowance, work 16 hours a week and do not have allowable expenses to take them below the earnings limit. In these circumstances a carer who is also receiving working tax credit will have any loss of carer's allowance offset by an increase in working tax credit.