Carers speak out!

Carers' Allowance

I gave up work 8 years ago to care fulltime for my husband who had been diagnosed with Non Hodgkin Lymphoma. He had a poor prognosis, but somehow pulled through (and again 3 yrs later). My husband received PIP and I received carers' allowance, until last year when I reached state pension age. As you're not able to claim state pension and carers allowance, so I lost the later. I have health issues too now and paying for help is costly. Now we've lost winter fuel payments too! It feels unfair.