Rules for carers

Care needs

You must be providing constant care in the home of 1 of the following:

• someone who has a severe disability or severe illness
• someone who is frail aged
• 2 to 4 children younger than 16 whose needs equal 1 child with severe needs
• 1 or 2 children younger than 16 and 1 adult whose needs equal 1 child with severe needs.

Transfer from Wife Pension

There’s different rules if you transferred to Carer Payment on 20 March 2020 because you were getting both:

• Wife Pension
• payment level Carer Allowance.

You’ll keep getting Carer Payment as long as there’s no break in your eligibility for payment level Carer Allowance. You must also either:

• continue to meet the rules for Carer Allowance
• get payment level Carer Allowance for another person you provide care for.