Rejected petition: Stop UC from deducting carers allowance from UC awards
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Currently people who claim carers allowance of £84.40 a week have this all deducted from their UC awards. We would like the government to stop UC from deducting this from awards.
Claimants with jobs are allowed to earn a minimum of £411 before any deductions of their award, why should full time carers have their awards deducted £1 for £1.
To be eligible for carers allowance you need to provide a minimum of 35hrs a week care to a disabled person. Carers allowance is £84.40 a week, and then this amount is deduced off UC awards. This should be classed as a full time job and reflected as such with UC claims.
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.
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Stop the deduction of carers allowance from people's Universal Credit award
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/752032We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.