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A new strategy for carers: better support for families and carers of older people
- Author:
- BERNARD Caroline
- Publisher:
- Counsel and Care
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 34p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The government needs to recognise the growing number of older carers in its review of the 1999 strategy for carers, Counsel and Care campaigners urged. In a new policy paper, charity Counsel and Care called for the benefits system to be reformed so that when people reach pension age they still have access to carer’s allowance. 1.5 million people aged over 60 who provide unpaid care, of which 8,000 are aged over 90. The paper, further recommends that the government increases the carer’s allowance to equal the national minimum wage and to increase the carer’s premium for income support or pension credit. The paper's author Caroline Bernard urges the government to work towards helping the six million unpaid carers in the UK work by promoting the right to flexible hours and extending tax exemptions to care vouchers.