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Welfare
Welfare Benefits
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Benefits: What’s available and how to get them
- Benefits: What's Available and How to Get Them
- The welfare benefits system is complex. Many people do not know what to claim.
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Carer’s Allowance & the Carer Premium
- Carer’s allowance (CA) is the main state benefit for carers. Before April 2003 it was called invalid care allowance.
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Community Care Grant
- Community Care Grant
- The Community Care Grant does not have to be repaid. Such a grant can be claimed if you are getting income support or likely to get it within six weeks. This could be where you are expected to leave a hospital, nursing home or prison, etc, and then claim income support.
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What is Direct Payment?
- A Direct Payment is money that may be given to you by your social services department to buy the support you need to care for the person you looking after.