The disabled person’s benefit
Your entitlement to CA depends on the person for whom you care continuing to get their disability benefit. If their benefit stops, your benefit should also stop. To avoid being overpaid, make sure you tell the Carer’s Allowance Unit (see
Appendix 1) if the disabled person’s AA, ADP, CDP, PIP or DLA stops being paid, or if you are no longer providing care for 35 hours or more a week.
If you are caring for a disabled adult, it is not always financially prudent to claim CA. Although it may mean more money for you, it could result in the person for whom you care losing some income support (IS), income-based jobseeker’s allowance (JSA), income-related employment and support allowance (ESA), pension credit (PC), housing benefit (HB) or council tax reduction (CTR). They may be getting a severe disability premium/addition included in these benefits. They cannot continue to get this premium if you get CA for them. See CPAG’s Welfare Benefits and Tax Credits Handbook for details.