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Ammend direct payments to enable carers who live with their relatives payment.

Submitted on Sunday 23rd November 2025

Rejected on Monday 29th December 2025

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: no-action (see below for details)

Petition Action

Ammend direct payments to enable carers who live with their relatives payment.

Petition Details

Ammend the policy for direct payments to allow carers who live with their relatives to receive direct payment wages.
Care provision from live in relatives is a working service to the relative, often throughout the day and night.
Live in carers can provide the best care options for relatives.

Additional Information

Currently carers who live with their relative can not apply for a direct payment wage.

This inevetably forces the carer onto the benefit system for an unreasonable allowance.
(Eg 47p pr hour for a carer with a basic pension of £800 pr month.)

Parliment should consider the inclusion of live in carers to be allowed to apply for a wage from the direct payment system, for the care provision service they provide to relatives.

This will give live in carers employment status leading to income


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This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

Petitions need to call on the Government or Parliament to take a specific action.

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