🔔 Carer’s Allowance Boost! From today, income limits for Carer’s Allowance will rise - single carers’ weekly disregard jumps from €450➡️ €650 - couples’ from €900 ➡️ €1,250. -That’s an 88% increase since 2022! ✅ Carers in two-adult households earning up to €69k can now get the full payment. ✅ Over 100,000 carers across Ireland will benefit, with 99% of current recipients qualifying for the full rate. Fianna Fáil's are committed to supporting carers in a meaningful and practical way. | Niamh Smy

Carer’s Allowance Supplement was received by carers across Scotland on Friday 9 December. This is a payment of £245 from the Scottish Government, paid through Social Security Scotland, in recognition of the important contribution of unpaid carers in Scotland. It was paid automatically to people who were receiving Carer’s Allowance from the Department for Work and Pensions on 10 October. This follows the April payment when 81,680 carers received the supplement. If you think you should have receiv

💬 Carers' Allowance Overpayments, have you been impacted? I've raised serious concerns with the Communities Minister about the increasing number of Carer’s Allowance overpayments. We're seeing a number of cases where carers have been hit with huge overpayment bills because of unclear rules and minor earnings breaches, often without realising they had done anything wrong. An independent review published last November by DWP confirmed this. It found that in England and Wales, thousands of carers