DWP looking at increasing carer’s allowance and earnings limit?

Asked whether the DWP was looking at the earnings limit for carer’s allowance as a particular barrier to work, Minister for Disabled People Penny Mordaunt said -

’Yes. There is the earning allowance and there is the amount itself. Clearly, just raising the amount, unless we do something else in the system, will not benefit an individual because it will affect means tested benefits.  However, the logic of raising the work allowance is there for all to see, so it is a live and ongoing issue. We have made some changes to that, but it is one thing that we will continue to look at.’

... and asked if the rate of carer’s allowance should be increased, the Minister said -

‘... if we are going to increase either work allowance or carer’s allowance in future years, we have to make sure that it is delivering a benefit to somebody and there is not another bit of the system that is hoovering it back.’

Source: paragraph Q418/9 of oral evidence to the Adult Social Care Inquiry on Monday 30 January 2017