2023 benefits rates revealed

The increase of £6.50 in the  Mobility Component will be a big help for me. A Minimum extra of £1,690 over the next five year will come in very handy, now I’m no longer on the scheme.

wmcforum wrote:

That will go some way towards the payments on the Suzuki.

Had it six months now and I’ve only done just over 3000 miles. So for me it was the best way to go at that exact time especially at 0%. At this rate if I keep it till 2030, I’d have not much more than 48k on the clock (and I could do 60k in 3 years on the scheme) but the reality is I’d only be doing 18 to 20k max now in the 3 years and that’s not really going to change.

I might well keep it till longer though. Other cars off the scheme I’ve had, I have put over 100k on them. If I do that now it will take me to 2038 and I’ll be 66. In that time I’d have had maybe another 5 cars on the scheme and onto the 6th and the footprint of that would be huge. So I am doing alot for the planet also, as well as my pocket and my long term piece of mind and you cannot get such a great deal now as it’s Representative APR is 7.9% and truth be told I only do 0% credit and after all I only need to get from a to b and back from b to a.

kezoParticipant
An extra £486.20 a year (high rate care component) will help somewhat.

An extra £366.6 a year Carers is still peanuts given mrs kezo looks after our daughter around the clock.

A mobility lease will now cost an extra £1014 over a 3 year lease.

Overall better than nothing

I’m with you on this one Kezo, the level of Carers Allowance in this country is appalling.

Anonymous wrote:

Jojoe wrote:

I’m with you on this one Kezo, the level of Carers Allowance in this country is appalling.

certainly is works out if you do the minimum 35 hrs a week you get £2.19 an hour. How is that even allowed.

Its slave labour, yet carers save the economy £119 billion a year. You would think the govenment would pay at least minimum wage if only for 35hrs a week!

Anonymous wrote:

Mrs a to b was also my carer and still is but she’s gone back into work (albeit from home) and now get’s nothing at all for all the care she still provides me. As many do who work and also are carers and some who look after their ageing parents for example rather than ditching them in a home are all taken for a huge ride.

And the fact that if an unpaid carer works 3hrs a day for 5 days at minimum wage they loose their entitlement to carer allowance. As well someone on certain benifits loooses the amount equall to carers allowance from their benifits, so the carer can be paid. The system is wrong in this country given carers save the government so much money.

Anonymous wrote:

lets not even mention the care homes, who just recently didn’t even inform her family / sister that her mum was admitted to hospital days ago and had some sort of stroke aagain, they think, but don’t even know? or did she have another fall like last time. that they didn’t tell anyone and tried to hide the fact. This is even while she’s being accessed for her care and who will pay for it and a social worker is envolved as she was in hospital but couldn’t go home, they wouldn’t allow it. Guess what they didn’t even inform the social worker either and they in big trouble now.

Ive witnessed first hand what a care home would be like for my daughter, by how she is treated in school and looked after in school. She comes home stinking of urine and toilet paper stuck in her bum along with poo where she has not been wiped properly, clothes on back to front etc etc. As a grown man I cry more now than I ever have in my life because of how she is treated. You tell them it falls on deaths ears. If you take matters higher she will likely be treated worse. Then there are programs you see of care homes on tv and what mt grandad went through.

Like you I won’t go into a care home, nor would I want my daughter after are days, nor does it bare thinking about what goes through ones mind to prevent my daughter going through it.

I hope mum is OK 🙂