Carers allowance & income support

[kkip17]

Hi all I'm hoping someone will be able to help.

I am a single mum on IS with 2 children, my oldest was diagnosed with autism and giving the HRC DLA in June this year. When I visited the JCP yesterday I was informed that I can claim CA but will also be entitled to some IS, I checked this on the entitled to website when I got home and it says that I would get £61.35 CA and £45.25 IS, my question is does this sound right and if so how will it be sorted and do they backdate and also how long does a claim take, I will be sending forms off today. Sorry for all the questions and long post and thanks

[fairgame]

Yes those amounts are right, your IS goes down to allow for the CA. IME CA is usually sorted pretty quickly i think mine was done in 2-4 weeks. I can't remember if it's backdated or not though sorry.

[HamJAMspam]

I don't know anything about IS but carers allowance is backdated, not sure how many months but it must be a good few because I got a lovely surprise just before Christmas a couple of years ago of back dated CA totally approx £600.

[kkip17]

That is great thank you both so much for your help, I sent the forms off yesterday so fingers crossed it doesn't take too long. Thanks again