Carers allowance

NANATO4

Hi could you tell me if my son was claiming universal credit and cancels the claim is he still entitled to carers allowance for me as I am on pip he doesn't have any other income at all ,it has been over 6 weeks and he hasn't heard back from them thankyou

poppy123456

Carers allowance and UC are two completely different benefits. If he cancels his UC he would still be able to claim Carers allowance. Why does he want to cancel his UC claim? If he cancelled this then he will have even less money to live off.

Has he reported being a carer for UC? I advised in another thread that if he does this his UC will include carers element.

There's no financial gain to claiming carers allowance at the same time as UC. He would still be able to claim carers element of UC even without carers allowance.

NANATO4

Hi thanks for your reply he has closed his claim for uc,a while ago but still not heard anything from carers as its been 6 weeks now

poppy123456

Why did he close his UC claim? I really confused why he did that? By doing this he's deprived himself of some extra income.

Carers allowance can take up to about 12 weeks.