the whole jobs situation is just dumb for carers, now soon as i earn £1, boom i lose income support, prescriptions for free and dental payments for free (nhs only i think), then add on getting to work on top of that its a fair ole hit straight off the bat.
so 5 hours income straight away to cover the initial income support lose then say another hour for every day you have to travel to and from work, then as i get two medications a month thats 2 more hours to cover them. and toss another hour in for the dental costs so in all looking at 10 hours all in as probably having to work a couple of 5 hour shifts and that doesn't even bring in to account any possible council tax surprises as now the council see you as earning nearly £100 a week on top of carers so instantly think you are better off as income support isnt actually viewed as a income against council tax relief.
and the maximum from last april you can earn before it starts eating in to the carers benefit is £128 a week. so 13.89 hours min wage before you lose more money and have to work more hours to offset that.
as iv said earlier in the post iv asked what would happen say i had a mad week or month where i made well over the limit and if it would be set against that week/month or the years benefits and the dwp and jobcentre (thats who the dwp pass you to for advice on work stuff) at the time couldn't give a straight answer just that its all down to my circumstances even when i tried to run through a few examples they point blank dont have the ability to give any sort of rough estimates or advice. this is the most annoying part for me and probably many other carers who could get some work but want real help as to show how much better off they could be, and of course this doesn't bring in the issues if the person you are looking after takes a turn for the worse, all the dwp states for that is find a job with flexible working because obviously theres loads of them out there.
again im not expecting loads of money from the government but this year really has upset me, especially with the BILLIONS sloshed around through the pandemic and the possible ones coming next week in the budget, it seems for certain sections of society money can always be found.