Campaign to stand up for carers

The party is running a campaign to increase the Carer’s Allowance by £1,000 a year:

During this terrible pandemic, our carers have been more important than ever. Yet carers are still often forgotten or ignored by those in power.

Back our campaign to stand up for carers – starting by raising the Carer’s Allowance by £1,000 a year 👇

Carers – paid and unpaid, young and old – do a remarkable and important job.

They deserve our support but are far too often forgotten and ignored. Liberal Democrats will stand up for carers and lead the way to a more caring society as we emerge from this pandemic.

This starts by raising Carer’s Allowance for unpaid carers by £1,000 a year.

You can back the party’s campaign to increase the Carer’s allowance to £1000 here.

* Newshound: bringing you the best Lib Dem commentary in print, on air or online.

Read more by or more about or .
This entry was posted in Campaign Corner.
Advert

2 Comments

  • Rif Winfield 3rd Feb '21 - 8:20am

    Sadly, £1000 per year (less than £20 per week) is a pathetically small amount. Carer’s Allowance is only paid (at £67.25 per week) to those who provide such care for a minimum of 35 hours per week. By anyone’s calculation, work of 35 hours a week is considered a full-time occupation. And Carers UK’s analysis is that at least a quarter of all such carers actually devote over 50 hours a week to their care work – many spend much more than 50 hours.
    £67.25 per week works out at £1.92 per hour for those who work the required 35 hours in order to qualify; raising the total by £1000 per year (£19.23 per week) will raise this to a wage of £2.47 per hour. Compare this with the National Minimum Wage level! And often a carer’s work involved strenuous physical work as well as long hours.
    The real (but still modest) target should be to ensure that Carers receive at least the National Minimum Wage for their work. The £1000 annual increase would be a helpful start, but should only be the start.

  • Richard Cripps 3rd Feb '21 - 9:33am

    As well as being inadequate, Carers Allowance is only paid to about 25% of informal Carers because there are so many exclusions. Well done for highlighting the issue though

Post a Comment

Lib Dem Voice welcomes comments from everyone but we ask you to be polite, to be on topic and to be who you say you are. You can read our comments policy in full here. Please respect it and all readers of the site.

To have your photo next to your comment please signup your email address with Gravatar.

Your email is never published. Required fields are marked *

*
*
Please complete the name of this site, Liberal Democrat ...?

Advert

Recent Comments

  • Simon R
    It's nice to see an attempt to not just suggest a policy but think through in detail how it could be implemented and how much it would cost. But @Mike Pete...
  • Steve Trevethan
    Thank you for a most interesting article. What is to stop paying N.H. S. staff decent attractive pay and making sure that they enjoy their work (mostly) with...
  • Craig Levene
    Nobody at moment Denis. Those who talk about AOC or Newsom just goes to show how detached the Dem party is from reality. They only have themselves to blame for...
  • Mick Taylor
    Unfettered capitalism -of the sort Donald Trump gavour - is not good for workers or consumers. This was recognised even by Adam Smith, who whilst thinking capit...
  • Denis Loretto
    Who is the leader or even potential leader of the Democrats? What prospect is there of their putting together an inspiring campaign? Is their only hope a fall-a...