Full time carer

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Im a full time carer to my disabled child who gets HRC and LRM due to this I am not working. I class myself as unemployed as im not working and not a paid carer. When speaking to people I would say I don’t work and gov would class me as unemployed. People have said I shouldn’t say im unemployed and that is classed as working? I wouldn’t say that it is but are they right or am I right to say im unemployed

I don’t know what HRC or LMR are. If you are not working and not looking for a job you are neither employed nor unemployed. You are economically inactive and the government will class you as such

Hi OP
I was (and am but now working part-time in term-time) an unpaid carer for my disabled child.
Thats the term you should use.
Any box tick options you tick carer.
Economically inactive is not a tick box option and it does not pertain to someone out of employment because of a caring role.
Unpaid carer applies to someone in receipt of a benefit such as carer’s allowance. A paid carer means a person employed to care (and hence earning at least minimum wage and with the other attributes of employment e.g. lunch breaks, annual leave etc.).

I mean in conversations with people if they ask what job I have etc I would say I don’t work or im unemployed etc

I’m an unpaid carer for 3 members of my family. When people ask me what I do, I say I’m a carer for family.

I guess the difference for me is it’s my own child

This what I say too. I am a carer for two people in my family. I’m certainly not economically inactive as suggested above. I’m saving the government a fucking fortune. They are paying me. Paying me in buttons, but it’s payment all the same.

You are saving for the government but from government perspective you are economically inactive. If you are not employed, not looking to be employed or able to be employed, you are classed as economically inactive as you are not part of the labour market supply. Unpaid carers, pensioners, stay at home parents etc do not fall in the “unemployment” stats you see on the news. They are classes as economically inactive, regardless of your contribution to society