Question follow-through · 47494
Carers: Part-time Employment
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of earnings threshold rules for Carer’s Allowance on unpaid carers engaged in part-time employment.
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 23 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 25 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 29 Apr 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
23 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of earnings threshold rules for Carer’s Allowance on unpaid carers engaged in part-time employment.
25 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
29 Apr 2025
Answer published
The weekly earnings limit in Carer’s Allowance (CA) was increased to £196 net earnings in April 2025. This is the largest cash increase ever since CA was introduced in 1976 and the highest percentage increase since 2001. Over 60,000 additional people will...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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