Apply for Carer’s Allowance

Lets users who care for another person for more than 35 hours a week get a regular payment so that they can carry on giving care.

Start page on GOV.UK

About this service

• Organisation: Department for Work and Pensions
• Topic: Benefits
• Status: Live
  Top 75 – one of the top 75 prioritised services
  One of the original 25 exemplar services
• Source code:
  • Source code

Service history

Passed live assessment

13 November 2014

• Service assessment report

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