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Carers' benefits
- Author:
- CULLEN Paddy
- Journal article citation:
- Benefits, 28, April 2000, pp.35-37.
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
Provides a basic guide to the benefits available to carers and how these relate to the benefits claimed by the disabled person.
The Disability and Carers Service: oral evidence: Wednesday 19 October 2005: Mr Terry Moran and Ms Vivien Hopkin
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Parliament. House of Commons. Work and Pensions Committee
- Publisher:
- Stationery Office
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 33p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Disability and Carers Service (DCS) is part of the Department for Work and Pensions. DCS helps disabled people and carers to lead independent lives by administering and delivering, disability benefits, providing advice on benefits, and supporting the Government's commitment to increasing the inclusion of disabled people in society.
Council tax in Scotland: a guide for people who have special needs and their carers
- Author:
- SCOTLAND. Scottish Executive
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Executive
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Disability and social policy
- Editor:
- DALLEY Gillian
- Publisher:
- Policy Studies Institute
- Publication year:
- 1991
- Pagination:
- 255p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Contains papers on: disability and social policy; disability and financial need - the failure of the social security system; income maintenance; meeting the costs of disability; social care services; support for informal carers - the role of social security; care of disabled people; the carers' viewpoint; and employment.
Your rights: a guide to money benefits for older people; 1999-2000
- Author:
- WEST Sally
- Publisher:
- Age Concern
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 166p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Contains sections on: pensions, widows' benefits and retirement; income related (means-tested) benefits; benefits for people with disabilities; other financial benefits; and further information.
Where's the benefit?
- Author:
- CAMPBELL Andy
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 24.7.97, 1997, p.33.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Registered homes legislation has had the unintended effect of barring access to benefits for disabled adults living in domestic settings under adult placement schemes. Explains the problem.
One year on
- Author:
- NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS
- Publisher:
- National Council for Voluntary Organisations
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 24p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Contains 9 specially commissioned articles on the role of voluntary organisations in community care provision. These include: community care implementation and disabled people; income support; carers and community care; some realities of community care planning; and the underlying driving forces.
Mixed blessings? The Invalid Care Allowance and carer's income needs
- Author:
- McLAUGHLIN Eithne
- Journal article citation:
- Benefits, 3, January 1992, pp.8-11.
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
Reports on a recent study of the Invalid Care Allowance and implications for the issues of women's role in society, and the increasing number of people being involved in the provision or receipt of community care.
Social security and community care: the case of the invalid care allowance
- Author:
- McLAUGHLIN Eithne
- Publisher:
- HMSO
- Publication year:
- 1991
- Pagination:
- 79p.,tables,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Report examining one aspect of the role of social security in community care: social security for unpaid (informal) carers via the invalid care allowance. Looks at the origins, development and operation of the ICA; the nature of care giving; care giving, employment and the ICA; carers incomes and the ICA; standard of living of recipients; the relationship with other social security benefits; claiming the ICA and the perceptions and awareness of potential recipients of their entitlements; and finally, looks at the effective targetting of the ICA.
Still missing out?: ending poverty and social exclusion; messages to government from families with disabled children
- Author:
- SHARMA Neera
- Publisher:
- Barnardo's
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 42p.
- Place of publication:
- Ilford
This report argues that the government should establish a minimum income standard which includes targeted support to meet extra essential costs of caring for a disabled child. It also suggests that national awareness campaign on disability should be developed and that the housing policy for disabled children be reviewed.