Carers speak out!

The government seem to have forgotten about carers

…especially those whom give up their career to care for their severely disabled child or adult and are on their own, so have to rely on universal credit and carers allowance-the carers allowance is counted as income and taken off the little you get in universal credit. The government always talk about getting people back to work and think those claiming benefits do so as they don't want to work, but never do they mention those people whom give up a job they loved and made sacrifices to care