Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people will lose entitlement to carer's allowance as a result of increases to the national minimum wage taking their income over the earning limit for that allowance.

The impact that a carer’s earnings, including those receiving the National Minimum Wage, will have on their entitlement to Carer’s Allowance (CA) will depend on the number of hours they work a week and their net salary for CA purposes once allowable deductions have been made.

The CA earnings limit will be increasing from £110 to £116 a week from April 2017. This 5% increase outstrips the current average increase in earnings. Up to 2,000 carers will benefit from this change.