Will my redundancy affect my Carer's Allowance payments?

lcs14
lcs14 Online Community Member Posts: 10 Listener
in Benefits and income
I am a carer for a family member and since earlier this year (February) I have been claiming Carer's Allowance, paid weekly.

Until early June, I also had a part time job working 8-10 hours a week, but I was made redundant from that.

I am due to get a redundancy payment. It's not much as I was only working those 8-10 hours a week, but it's still a lump sum of £2,500 that is to be paid along with my final monthly worked hours pay of £340.00. My worked hours have never affected my CA before as it's always been an average of £300-£350 per month, so under the weekly threshold cap. But now I am being paid my redundancy, will this stop my weekly Carer's Allowance payments? And if so, for how many weeks will it be stopped?

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  • bg844
    bg844 Online Community Member Posts: 3,883 Championing
    A lump sum should not affect entitlement to CA.
  • lcs14
    lcs14 Online Community Member Posts: 10 Listener
    Thanks for the reply. So my CA weekly payments should still go ahead as normal?
  • bg844
    bg844 Online Community Member Posts: 3,883 Championing
    Correct, apologies for getting back to this thread late. :)
  • lcs14
    lcs14 Online Community Member Posts: 10 Listener
    Thank you. I have informed CA that this is happening and explained the payment for redundancy is being paid along with my final worked pay, but that I can provide a copy of my payslip to show the breakdown of this so they do not think this sum is worked earnings.
  • L_Volunteer
    L_Volunteer Community Volunteer Adviser, Scope Member Posts: 7,922 Championing
    How are you feeling about this at the moment @Ics14?
  • lcs14
    lcs14 Online Community Member Posts: 10 Listener
    I have not yet heard back from CA after calling them to explain, as well as making a change to my circumstances online. They haven't asked for a copy of my payslip and so far since I received the redundancy last week, my CA payments have still gone through.

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