This petition was submitted during the 2015–2017 Conservative government
Rejected petition More financial support for carers and recognition of the work we do.
Unpaid carers who rely on carer's allowance are usually in some sort of financial difficulty as they cannot always work and care for their relatives. I'd like for us to be paid more in line with an actual wage as we are doing the same work for much less. Along with paid leave should we fall ill.
More details
Carer's Allowance is £62.10 a week, this means that an unpaid carer who is caring for the minimum 35 hours a week needed to claim Carer's Allowance is only being paid around £1.77 an hour.
CarersUK recently discovered that our contribution of care is worth £132 billion each year.
This petition was rejected
Why was this petition rejected?
There’s already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.
You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/105969
We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.