Question follow-through · 11614
Carer's Allowance
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has made an assessment of the impact of carers losing access to Carers Allowance once they become entitled to the State Pension on those carers.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 29 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 5 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 5 Nov 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Recorded timeline
29 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has made an assessment of the impact of carers losing access to Carers Allowance once they become entitled to the State Pension on those carers.
5 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
5 Nov 2024
Answer published
Although there is no upper age limit to claiming Carer’s Allowance, it cannot normally be paid with the State Pension. It has been a long held feature of the UK’s benefit system, under successive Governments, that where someone is entitled to two benefits...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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