Just A Warning About Carers Allowance

anth22
anth22 Posts: 228 Empowering
edited October 2021 in Benefits and income
I know a carer who didnt receive their carers allowance today due to PIP not informing them the disabled person had been given an extension  on their PIP. Carers allowance said its not PIP who should have told them about the extension its the carers duty, so be warned if your carers money hasnt gone in it could be down to this situation. My friend now has to wait another 5 days to receive her payment.

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  • janer1967
    janer1967 Posts: 21,921 Championing
    Hi 

    Thanks a lot for sharing this with us will help lot of people 
  • anth22
    anth22 Posts: 228 Empowering
    Your welcome i was thinking the same it will help many people out because lets say for an example my friends PIP was due to end on the 26th Jan 2021 and her friend was receiving carers allowance to look after her, carers allowance would also stop on that date as carers would have no idea her PIP had been extended for a few months. So if anyone receives a letter from PIP with an extension on it and they have a carer they need to let Carers Allowance know asap.
      
  • wilko
    wilko Posts: 2,438 Championing
    @anth22, that what’s this forum is about giving information to help and inform members to continue receiving their benefits and helping advising where and when we can, thank you for bringing this nugget of information to the community attention.
  • Tori_Scope
    Tori_Scope Posts: 12,471 Scope
    Thank you for sharing @anth22 :) 
  • Ralph
    Ralph Posts: 135 Empowering
    We had a PIP renewal phone interview a couple of weeks ago. It was one week before the extension date ended. We are waiting for the results of the interview, it may be weeks according to the texts. Carers allowance stopped on the extension date. Do we get back paid carers allowance when our PIP is renewed?
  • poppy123456
    poppy123456 Posts: 64,375 Championing
    Ralph said:
    We had a PIP renewal phone interview a couple of weeks ago. It was one week before the extension date ended. We are waiting for the results of the interview, it may be weeks according to the texts. Carers allowance stopped on the extension date. Do we get back paid carers allowance when our PIP is renewed?

    The PIP will continue until a decision is made on the review. You can ring carers allowance to tell them this. Unless a decision's been made on the review in the meantime.

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