Carer's Allowance
(asked on 19th December 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many carers in receipt of Carer’s Allowance also have earnings from paid employment.
This question was answered on 9th January 2023
The latest data available on how many unpaid carers are in receipt of Carer’s Allowance and have earnings from paid employment comes from the Family Resources Survey 2020/21 linked with DWP admin data.
The department estimates that around 175,000 (less than one in five) Carer’s Allowance recipients were declaring earnings to the department at the time they responded to the survey.