14. Why claim carers’ benefits?
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14. Why claim carers’ benefits?
Your household income might not appear to be higher after you claim carer’s allowance or carer support payment (CSP), since they overlap with other benefits. However, if you are entitled to carer’s allowance or CSP, even if it cannot be paid because of an overlapping benefit (see 13 above ), you might receive:
    ■a ‘carer amount’ included in your universal credit award (see Chapter 15(7) );
    ■a ‘carer premium’ included in your housing benefit or health benefits; an equivalent additional amount can be included in your pension credit award. See Chapter 22(5) ; and
    ■Class 1 national insurance contribution credits (see Box D.2 in Chapter 11) and help towards meeting the national insurance contribution conditions for employment and support allowance (see Chapter 11(18) ) or jobseeker’s allowance (see Chapter 13(5) ).
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