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€5 increase Invalidity/Carer's issue

  • 16-03-2017 10:02am
    #1
    fussyonion
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,821 ✭✭✭


    Posting for my Aunt and Uncle.

    He's on Invalidity Pension, she's on his claim as an adult dependent and she gets half-rate Carer's.

    The total they receive on Invalidity is €350 and she gets €102 Carer's.

    With the €5 increase, their Invalidity is now €355 and her Carer's is now €104.50.

    This means they jointly got the €5 increase and she got half the increase.
    Is that right?

    Should they both have had the €5 on the Invalidity OR should she not have had the €5 increase on her Carer's?

    I don't understand it at all.


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  • #2
    infogiver
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,505 ✭✭✭infogiver


    fussyonion wrote: »
    Posting for my Aunt and Uncle.

    He's on Invalidity Pension, she's on his claim as an adult dependent and she gets half-rate Carer's.

    The total they receive on Invalidity is €350 and she gets €102 Carer's.

    With the €5 increase, their Invalidity is now €355 and her Carer's is now €104.50.

    This means they jointly got the €5 increase and she got half the increase.
    Is that right?

    Should they both have had the €5 on the Invalidity OR should she not have had the €5 increase on her Carer's?

    I don't understand it at all.

    Yes that's absolutely right. The increase was incremental.


  • #3
    fussyonion
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,821 ✭✭✭fussyonion


    infogiver wrote: »
    Yes that's absolutely right. The increase was incremental.

    What does that mean?


  • #4
    infogiver
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,505 ✭✭✭infogiver


    fussyonion wrote: »
    What does that mean?

    The €5 was for the claimant and dependent combined, not the dependent AND the claimant each.
    Your aunt is on 1/2 rate Carers as there is already a payment in regard to her, so her 1/2 payment gets her 1/2 the €5 rise.
    Pensioners on max pension got €5
    Pensioners on reduced pension got €4.90
    Pensioners on min pension got €4.80.


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