Carers: Earnings Rules
(asked on 3rd March 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of unpaid carers in receipt of (a) carer’s allowance and (b) the carer element of Universal Credit are of working age.
This question was answered on 9th March 2023
As of August 2022, around 945,000 working age unpaid carers were receiving Carer’s Allowance. Around 99% of those receiving Carer’s Allowance are of working age.
The information requested for Universal Credit is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.