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This
#CarersWeek
learn the daily reality of
#UnpaidCarers
today.
Watch our award-winning film
#TheOnesWhoCare
Join us
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This
#CarersWeek
learn the daily reality of
#UnpaidCarers
today.
Watch our new film
#TheOnesWhoCare
Join us
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Carers Allowance is a benefit that’s 50 years out of touch.
It’s simply not fit for purpose in 21st century.
How it’s administered and run isn’t fit for purpose.
We need investment in carers and investment in our carer benefits.
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In case you were wondering Carers Allowance is £3,624.40 a year ⬇️
Typical energy bill will rise to £3,549 a year from October for millions of households in England, Scotland and Wales as new price cap announced
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The
#Budget23
still leaves
#UnpaidCarers
with little ability but to give up work to look after family /friends.
Not fixing Social Care leaves many ending careers.
Not fixing Carers Allowance earning limit means carers can’t earn more than £132 week. This should have been done.
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As an unpaid carer how do you feel when "hardworking families" are mentioned?
Do you think it excludes you?
#ValueCarers
#SpringBudget
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91 % of
#UnpaidCarers
feel ignored by government in a survey last year by Carers Trust
#PushedToTheEdge
What do you think
#UnpaidCarers
need to feel their voices have finally been heard?
#ValueCarers
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The Guardian view on carer’s allowance: people who look after others should not be an afterthought | Editorial
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Benefits rise in line with inflation but not now, carers and our families have to wait until winter is over in April to see this rise.
This means carers allowance rises to £76.74 a week, if our maths right! It’s currently only £69.70
Carers face a very bleak winter indeed.
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Incredible figure from BBC News - Young carers 'average £12,000 of unpaid work a year' It’s time we valued young
#unpaidcarers
and all
#Carers
so they aren’t the
#stickingplaster
supporting our health and social care systems together.
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We are the ones who care.
Join us.
Today is the first day of
#CarersWeek
. Share our film so
#UnpaidCarers
are heard.
#TheOnesWhoCare
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A big shoutout to an estimated 13.6 million unpaid carers in the UK this
#CarersWeek
.
We continue to do so much with so little support. Join us & let’s together make
#UnpaidCarers
#VisibleAndValued
.
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Carers allowance is now £81.90 a week
Eligibility rules are complex and designed to make you fail.
It’s no wonder carers fall foul of them.
Add to which DWP are not flagging quickly enough individuals who earn over earning threshold, then prosecuting them, it’s unforgivable
Those carers who do manage to get the pittance that is Carers Allowance are already caring 35+ hours a week. A system that ends up with over 25,000 carers having to repay due to overpayments which Govt IT systems apparently flag but haven't acted upon simply has to change (1)
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This is just so very wrong on so many levels.
Ministers clawing back £251m from carers hit by DWP’s allowance failures
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Today, we’re launching our Unpaid Carers Manifesto with clear asks for our future MPs for
#GE19
. Carers shouldn’t be a 🩹
#stickingplaster
for lack of political action. Stick by us and get involved!
#valuecarers
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We want to feel seen and heard and be able to have our say.
We’re in Parliament today, what’s the one message you’d like to get across to MPs this
#CarersWeek
?
#ValueCarers
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We’re campaigning for a reform of Carers Allowance and carers’ benefits . Carers Allowance is the lowest benefit of it’s kind, at £81.90 a week.
This General Election, we need to
#valuecarers
. We need benefits that allow us to survive.
#GE2024
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As part of the Carer Poverty Coalition we aren't surprised that
#UnpaidCarers
are forgotten again in the
#Budget
Unpaid carers face acute financial hardship. The cost of living pressures have not gone away.
The Government must recognise the link between caring and poverty.
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We’re so hoping the Chancellor heard
@MartinSLewis
on those with higher than average energy bills running vital life saving equipment, due to disability and serious medical conditions. Thank you Martin.
We’ve over 15k people who are hoping the same 👇
What I asked the Chancellor to do, about energy and the cost of living, when I spoke to him on Monday...
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Half a million carers not claiming Carers Allowance.
Why? It’s eligibility rules and application forms.
You only have to see the current stories of carer overpayments to put you off claiming.
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We’re campaigning for a reform of Carers Allowance and carers’ benefits. Carers Allowance is the lowest benefit of its kind. This General Election, we need all to recognise our value in a caring economy.
No carer should be in poverty because of a caring role.
#GE2024
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It's
#CarersRightsDay
and the theme this year is the
#CostOfCaring
?
What has caring cost you? Physically, emotionally, health and wellbeing, financially, relationships, friendships, career, jobs...
Do let us know below if you feel able.
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It's
#CarersRightsDay
today
Right now it doesn't feel like we have that many and many of these rights are being eroded away. This is whilst we are being asked to do more caring than ever before.
A thread 🧵 1/10
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Are we all in this together?
#Budget2021
offers no reward to UK’s 7 million
#UnpaidCarers
who have pushed themselves over the limit during
#COVID19
.
35p rise to carers allowance that's taken off other entitlements is not a thank you. It shows this Government doesn't
#ValueCarers
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A big shoutout to all unpaid carers in the UK in
#CarersWeek
Never before has so much been asked of us, with so little support. Never before have we been so isolated. Join us here & let’s together make
#carers
#VisibleandValued
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A big shout out to the million unpaid carers in the UK this New Year. We continue to do so much with so little support.
Join us & let’s together make to
#ValueCarers
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We're travelling to Westminster today to speak to political decision makers about caring.
We'll be putting our lived experience right at the heart of those conversations.
#CarersWeek
#RealCarersWeek
Keep an eye on our socials. We'll update as we can.
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#UnpaidCarers
can't carry on propping up the social care system.
This
@DWP
response is insulting. 600 carers a day give up work to take on caring roles.
Few carers qualify for financial support due to qualifying criteria and if they do receive CA it's only £3,624.40 a year.
"About half of unpaid carers don't get any state support, and those that qualify get just under £70/week... unpaid carers are filling the void in govt social care"
The plight of unpaid carers on SkyNews this morning.
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Unpaid carers provide vital support to others, often going unseen.
This
#GeneralElection
, we're still calling for a National Carers Strategy to
#ValueCarers
led by the next Prime Minister to ensure we get the support and recognition we deserve.
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91 % of
#UnpaidCarers
feel ignored by government in a survey by Carers Trust
#PushedToTheEdge
What do you think
#UnpaidCarers
need to feel their voices have finally been heard?
#ValueCarers
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91 % of
#UnpaidCarers
feel ignored by government according to a survey by Carers Trust in February 2022.
#PushedToTheEdge
Has anything changed? Or do you think carers feel more ignored?
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On Thursday, this Carers Rights Day, join us to call for better support for unpaid carers.
Join a growing community of carers asking for a National Carers Strategy for better financial support and respite.
#ValueCarers
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Today is
#CarersRightsDay
- please share your selfies wearing our
#WeCareCampaign
badges and/or a message of how you would like our Government to
#ValueCarers
make sure to include
@WeAreCarers
for us to re-share. We stand with the UK's 7 million 💗
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We need a fair
#carers
allowance. It’s the lowest paid benefit of its kind at £66.15 a week. If you divide this by the qualifying 35 hours, it works out at £1.89. Not enough for your morning latte or cup of tea ☕️
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#UnpaidCarers
having issues
* registering as Carers with GP; staff don’t recognise role of parent carers
* registering as a carer & then told too young to get vaccine.
All proof system clearly doesn’t understand role of
#UnpaidCarers
& identification of Carers vital.
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Are you one of the four in ten carers that hasn't had a break in the last year?
This
#GeneralElection
ask your candidates to commit to proper funding for respite care.
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This
#CarersWeek
let's make it impossible to ignore
#UnpaidCarers
voices.
@WillowKaty
started We Care as she felt
#carers
voices were going unheard.
We Care has been pushing for a National Carers Strategy which would identify & support carers. We deserve a Carers Strategy.
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So pleased to see Carers Allowance here.
It’s outdated, a pittance, has complex rules which serve no one and not all carers receive it by any means!
It’s time for change
#ValueCarers
Tonight 9pm (not usual 8pm) an
@itvMLshow
special with the Chancellor... I'll ask him about
Child Benefit | Energy Bills | Lifetime ISAs | Carers Allowance | Mental Health & Benefits | National Insurance | Frozen Tax Thresholds | Inflation | Mid-contract broadband & mobile price
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In today's
#PMQs
@KeeleyMP
asks about charging
#UnpaidCarers
for Lateral Flow Tests.
You can catch the question and the reply from the PM here
👇
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You don’t see us, but we’re there.
We’re the ones. The ones who care.
Let’s get the voices of
#UnpaidCarers
heard this
#CarersWeek
Join us👉
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@vickyfoxcroft
Hi Vicki,
Hope you don’t mind us saying that
#CarersWeek
is for the 5.6 million unpaid carers in the UK.
Great that paid care workers are due fair pay but this is about us, all the unpaid family carers looking after someone.
We don’t get a mention in your manifesto.
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Reminder it’s the Petition Debate on Carers Allowance today Monday at 4:30pm
You can catch it here live on you tube
⬇️
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We’re shocked that Govt has shown such blatant disregard for carers in its
#SpringStatement
❌ ⬆️ NI threshold won’t help those of us who do unpaid work
❌ Local authority fund is a postcode lottery
❌ Insulating homes won’t reduce energy cost of life-sustaining equipment used
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Thank you to
@leicesterliz
for summing up the pitiful situation for
#UnpaidCarers
in the Adult Social Care Reform White Paper.
11 million family carers have been pushed to the limit looking after the people they love. Additional funding announced is £1.60 more per carer.
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Good morning to all the
#UnpaidCarers
caring this morning
#ValueCarers
How's your Monday going ?
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#UnpaidCarers
& their lives covered in
@DailyMirror
today.
Huge thanks to
@PaulRidley5
@Purplepetal
for sharing their stories alongside
@WillowKaty
#ValueCarers
Thank you for amplifying the voices of
#UnpaidCarers
@realbritainros
@Journo_MaryamQ
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@Gebinh1
Geoff, can you or your wife email campaigns
@mndassociation
.org
telling them what’s happened. They have a carers campaign.
Sorry to hear this, as it is unforgivable.
@mndcampaigns
flagging you to see what’s happened to Geoff’s wife re CA
#MND
Katy
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Carers are seven times more likely than the general population to say they are always or often lonely.
Almost half (48%) of carers said they did not have time to spend on social activities.
We're campaigning for adequate funding so carers to get breaks
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#UnpaidCarers
who provide high levels of care for sick, or disabled relatives or friends, are more than twice as likely to suffer from poor health.
We're calling for increased funding for
#carers
breaks this
#CarersWeek
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How can it be right that family carers are forced to leave paid work to care for loved ones?
How can it be right that
#UnpaidCarers
, doing the ‘right thing’ caring are forced into poverty?
Let’s not pitch working v. non-working, all of us can so easily move from 1 to other.
@MattChorley
Truss ally:
'How can it be right that someone who gets up at 6am & works hard all day is seeing their pay go up by 5% or so and someone who is not working and is on benefits gets a 10% rise?'
They claim that it will increase incentives for people to get jobs and fill vacancies
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This people need to be working rhetoric totally ignores
#UnpaidCarers
having to give up their own paid employment to look after loved ones. There is no alternative with current care crisis, pressure on NHS & government now asking us to take on more hours of care for loved ones.
"The best way to get out of poverty is for people to be working"
Work and Pensions Secretary Therese Coffey tell
#KayBurley
it's "very unlikely" children will live in poverty if both their parents have jobs.
📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233, YouTube
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For the first time
@jrf_uk
have calculated the
#CaringPenalty
and found that unpaid carers lose thousands of pounds a year in earnings when they take up caring.
Have you had to make a difficult decision when balancing care and work? Tell us using
#CaringPenalty
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LFT tests for covid could cost up to £5
If govt refuses to make free tests available to
#UnpaidCarers
, more family carers & their loved ones may become dangerously ill
The cost of free tests for carers is far less than the cost of emergency hospitalisation.
#ValueCarers
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It is not unusual for
#UnpaidCarers
to become unwell through physical or emotional exhaustion. Caring for our carers is vital, this starts with knowing who they are. This
#CarersWeek
we ask for carers to be identified as a duty of care in law by the
#NHS
#ValueCarers
@WillowKaty
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On this
#NationalDayofReflection
we reflect and send love & support to all those
#UnpaidCarers
who have lost loved ones and friends they cared for, and cared about during the pandemic.
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It's our 6th Birthday! 🎉
How has this happened? We're celebrating how far we've come, all thanks to your support.
Our first event was back in 2018 for unpaid carers to meet, chat, craft and talk about our caring experiences.
Thank you We Care Community
We ❤️ you x
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A big shoutout to an estimated 10.6 million unpaid carers in the UK this New Year. We continue to do so much with so little support.
Join us & let’s together make to
#ValueCarers
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Only 8% of
#UnpaidCarers
felt they had been able to take sufficient breaks in their caring role according to a previous carers survey from last year. We imagine it's even less now. We sure haven't had one...
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From us all at We Care Campaign we wish all
#UnpaidCarers
and our amazing supporters a Merry Christmas. We hope you can squeeze all the joy you can into today. We'll be thinking of you all,
Katy and the We Care team x
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Firstly thank you. To carers
@RachelCurtis82
and Shirley who were just stellar and our team from
@OxfamGB
who got us into the room.
We put the lived experience of our carer community at the heart of our conversations with decision makers this
#CarersWeek
#RealCarersWeek
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Thank you
@IanByrneMP
for your contribution at today’s
@CommonsLUHC
on long-term funding of adult social care.
During the pandemic
#UnpaidCarers
spiked at 13.6 million, providing an annual saving to the economy of £132bn. Does Government recognise the importance of unpaid care?
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“she had exceeded the earnings limit by about £3 most of those weeks. Some weeks it was as little as 50p over.”
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A strong debate with calls for reviewing carers allowance and over payments.
Thanks to the parliamentarians who took part
⬇️
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Few
#UnpaidCarers
have the breaks or respite they need to help them stop becoming stressed and exhausted.
Only 8% of carers say they have enough breaks. There needs to be greater funding for carer breaks.
#ValueCarers
#VisibleAndValued
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UK government dementia adviser resigns over prosecutions of carers
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Hey it’s a bank holiday and we all know that essentially it’s another day of the same for all
#unpaidcarers
out there.
Hope you have a good one.
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In a year when unpaid caring was never more vital, we continue to stress the importance of not only being visible but valued with a national Carers Strategy for all
#UnpaidCarers
in the UK. Real carers' voices have to part of
#LifeBeyondCOVID
discussions. Here's our banner 📣
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Those on mean tested benefits like UC will be entitled to £650, targeting low income families. Yet again those on Carers Allowance have been missed off this support. Carers Allowance is the lowest benefit of its kind and well past it’s sell by date. We need meaningful reform.
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Wonderful to hear and see
@LJB87
and
@HannanRuth
telling it like it is this am on
@BBCBreakfast
We need bigger reforms.
#UnpaidCarersLeave
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If only it were that simple for
#UnpaidCarers
A government minister has suggested that people struggling with the cost of living should take on more hours or move to a better-paid job.
Read more:
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Check out this letter. Caring is indeed work ⬇️
Caring is work. It is time that was recognised | Letter
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Thank you Barbara for raising this.
The news today that Covid-19 vaccines are being administered is momentous, but unpaid carers feel their role on the front line is being forgotten. Once we have vaccinated the most vulnerable, unpaid carers must be a priority to ensure they are kept safe and can continue caring.
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Hundreds of thousands have signed our petitions, given in today to
@trussliz
- our energy support petition is one.
We hope she hears & heeds our voices. The voices of those already struggling with the
#CostOfLivingCrisis
. She must act now to
#FixThisCrisis
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🚨 Can you vote today for
@WeAreCarers
to win a Charity Film Award?
Our film
#TheOnesWhoCare
is nominated for a
@SmileyCFA
award
Help us get shortlisted so real unpaid carers stories and experiences are seen
VOTE➡️
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There's barely any mention of
#UnpaidCarers
in the recent debates on
#SocialCare
.
Let's not forget that family carers provide the majority of care in the UK.
That's families like ours & yours looking after loved ones who need more support to live their lives.
#ValueCarers
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Summing up how we all feel this
#GE2024
"As an unpaid carer, I feel unseen and unheard."
Thank you Minreet Kaur for this piece
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Warnings that £150 extra cost-of-living help for those on disability benefits is 'not enough'
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It’s way past time for a fairer
#CarersAllowance
A reminder it’s also only £69.70 a week - if you happen to fit the eligibility criteria.
Latest
@DWP
stats show 1.3 million people claiming for
#carersallowance
.
Striking reminder that only a small portion of the est. 11 million
#unpaidcarers
in the UK receive that support.
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This
@CommonsHealth
report recommends:
“The Government must bring forward a National Carers’ Strategy by the end of March 2022 with the aim of offering improved support for people providing
care.”
As a key We Care ask for
#UnpaidCarers
it’s great to see this written here 👇
NEW: We've just published our report on supporting people with dementia and their carers.
Read our report and recommendations focusing on social care:
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Great to meet
@EdwardJDavey
following his passionate PMQs contribution on
#UpaidCarers
Discussions included the need for a Government Carer's Strategy, the inadequacy of Carer's Allowance&breaks
We look forward to working with you further to encourage Government to
#ValueCarers
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Today it’s
#CarersRightsDay
Let’s share this far and wide to encourage people to join our movement and get the voices of unpaid carers and their loved ones, heard
#ValueCarers
#stickingplaster
#GE2019
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As unpaid carers, too often we feel our voices get drowned out.
Let's get heard this General Election
#GE24
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As part of the Carer Poverty Coalition we’re sharing a new petition:
Review and reform Carer's Allowance to increase support and reduce overpayments - Petitions
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This is ABSOLUTELY the best thing we’ve read on
#UnpaidCarers
overpayments EVER.
Go Laura! 💪
If you’re a comms professional or journalist give it a read and a cheeky retweet / like
@CharityComms
Had to be done- a cheeky open letter to the
@DWPgovuk
*irony warning*
@JoshHalliday
@patrickjbutler
@CarersUK
@WeAreCarers
@guardian
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Sylvia isn’t asking for the moon…she’s asking for cover for a day to be able to attend day surgery for herself.
It shouldn’t be this hard
#UnpaidCarer
Sorry to hear this Sylvia.
Do read ⬇️⬇️⬇️
If you are an unpaid carer who lives in Wales and only asks Social Services for care for one day due to going for day surgery you will not get care into the home to cover you. I am just so frustrated.🤬🤬
#personalexperience
@Mikeo56977865
@AbiSmitton
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Dear
@RishiSunak
, we are the forgotten 7 million plus
#UnpaidCarers
you and your Government have failed to provide for throughout this
#COVID19
pandemic whilst we tirelessly care for our loved ones.
What will it take for you to
#ValueCarers
?
#CarerTwitterStormFriday
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Today at 12:55pm
@JustinWelby
speaks about the need to address social care.
#UnpaidCarers
, families and paid care workers need to be valued by government, organisations and us all.
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1 in 3 carers are forced to cut back on essentials like food and heating. That’s why we’ve joined 50 other members of the Carer Poverty
Coalition urging
@Jeremy_Hunt
to provide more financial support for unpaid carers. Join us, write to your MP:
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Carers need to be identified and supported. It takes carers two years to identify on average as a carer. For parent carers it’s five years.
We need carers to be identified.
Read Clare’s story about how carers should be a political priority
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Sending love to all the women who care this
#InternationalWomensDay
.
In 2011, in the
#census
women were more likely to be
#UnpaidCarers
than men; 58 % of unpaid carers were women & 42% were men in England and Wales.
Globally women undertake 75% of all unpaid care work.
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Whilst
#UnpaidCarers
on Universal Credit are losing £20 a week, those on legacy benefits feel forgotten as they never received any financial help during the pandemic.
Carers like Karen 📢👇
We're calling on govt to
#KeepTheLifeLine
& extend it to those on legacy benefits.
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"What does 'putting carers on the map' really mean for unpaid carers?
This Carers Week, we need clear actions, not vague slogans.
Join us in demanding real support and recognition with our
#RunningOnEmpty
campaign
#RealCarersWeek
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We know a thing or two about powerful videos.
Do watch this moving one from
@alzheimerssoc
We vow to help end the devastation caused by dementia, with dedicated support and life-changing treatments.
Together we are help and hope for everyone living with dementia.
Find more information at .
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.
@KeeleyMP
raising the issue of spiralling energy costs for disabled & their families today in
#PMQs
#EnergyCrisis
"People with a disability or serious medical condition face unmanageable debt or going without food to pay the cost of electricity on which they absolutely rely"
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📺 Tonight’s the night 🎥
Craftivism: Making a Difference is airing tonight
@BBCFOUR
10pm
We can’t wait 🩹🪡🧵😊
Let us know if you’re going to be watching
#Craftivism
#ValueCarers
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It's the first of the month, when we re share our film
Do you see us?
We’re everywhere.
We’re the ones.
The ones who care.
#TheOnesWhoCare
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Carers Allowance simply is not fit for purpose and fails to value carers for their enormous contribution to society. We need to change this.
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