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There have been some posts recently where members have enquired about the qualifying conditions for Carers Allowance. The rules for claiming Carers Allowance can be complicated and depend entirely on the circumstances of the claimant, and the person being cared for.

As moderators our area of expertise is in relation to disability living allowance, attendance allowance, the personal capability assessment used in connection with incapacity benefits, and the work capability assessment used in connection with employment and support allowance. So those are the only subjects on which we can provide reliable information. However, you need to bear in mind that boards like this can never provide advice to individual claimants about their specific circumstances, for that you need to use an advice agency.

All we can offer is general information about how the system works.

However, we cannot offer advice to individuals about a specific benefits problem under any circumstances. To give accurate and reliable advice about a specific benefits problem, we'd need to know a great deal about your income, savings, health, household arrangements and more. To give advice without all this information would seriously risk misinforming you.

If you need specific benefits advice, you can download our FREE, 12 page guide to getting help with your benefits.

Members are always entitled to comment on benefits where for example they receive the benefit in question themselves. However, in these circumstances a disclaimer should be added to the post if there is a particular element of doubt to the effect:-

Anything posted by me represents my own opinion and not that of Benefits and Work, the DWP, the Tribunals Service, nor any other government agency or welfare rights organisation.

This is not legal advice, but for information purposes only. If you need legal advice you should NOT rely on information given in this forum, but consult a solicitor or lawyer, preferably one with experience of the benefit you are on, or seeking information about.


Thank you for your cooperation with this matter.

I was guilty of the question. I have looked over some posts today and really do feel that the reason I did join the site was for the relevent information to download that could be helpful,although it is a handy source having the forum to let off steam(within reason) or ideas. I understand the people acting as moderators should not be held to account as giving factual help,and only guidance is required, but experience is sometime a hard fought past ,that is helpful, because even the downloads are a minefield of information that is almost double dutch,and having asked advice from CAB ,they are still bemused by a lot of so called law on benefits.
This is an excellent place to glean information, but as I said I agree that members should take it as such ,and not think they are getting an answer for them in particular,as I know we have all individual cases.
So far so good the advice is helpful.

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