Child DLA AND carers ELEMENT

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Hi wondering if anyone can help, me and my partner are on UC he works full time I’m on LCWRA.. our child just been awarded the middle rate DLA.. now I cannot claim carers element as I’m on LCWRA and you cannot claim both but if my partner claimed it how does he go about leaving work ? his job is 9hoirs a day and it very hard work so he’s no time for us and we need him
thanks

He doesn’t need to leave work to claim the carers element on UC. My dh works full time and he claims the carers element. (I am on lcwra). It’s carers allowance - which is separate to UC - that you can’t claim if your earnings go over a certain amount. However, you can claim carers allowance even if you have LCWRA and you should do so if you can as it gives you national insurance contributions towards your pension.

Hi thanks for your reply but he wants to leave to spend more time with his daughter and give her the best he can because at the minute he works 9 hrs a day and is lifting heavy pallets all day he carnt walk when he’s finished in the evening

Oh I see. Well if he wants to leave he can just leave, surely? Give his notice in. If you write in the journal before he leaves that he wants to claim carers element once awarded it, it makes him exempt from having search for work.

He needs to resign then you’ll need to get him to either claim carers allowance or the carers element . He will then have no work commitments on UC.

If you claim carers allowance they do deduct that but you get the carers element