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

Rejected 21 signatures

What the petition asks

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.

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

Why it was rejected

It was not clear what the petition asked the UK Government or Parliament to do.

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

We're not sure exactly what you'd like the Government or Parliament to do. If you would like to increase the carer's allowance, you could start a petition about that.

Timeline

23 Nov 2025	Petition opened for signatures
29 Dec 2025	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 21

Status Rejected

Rejected 29 Dec 2025

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