Carers Benefit question

Donal27

Hi,

My dad recently had a stroke and requires care at home. I currently work full time in civil service, I am thinking of applying for take carers leave and work less hours at work. I'm pretty sure he will meet the medical need part for carers leave. My understanding is that you can work up to 2 days or 18.5 hours in your current job as long as you don't earn over 332.50 net per week. I'm trying to calculate this, it seems I'm under that threshold if they count pension contribution (work deduction and avcs) and over it if they don't. Does anyone know if they include your pension contributions on payslip when they are calculating your reduced net salary.

Also if it was a case that I was over the threshold would I still get some carers allowance like a percentage or be entitled to nothing just whatever I earn from 2 days work? As if 2 days work excludes me from any allowance it might not be worth my while, I maybe better off applying for full carers allowance and not working at all.

Any advice appreciated

mystic

Here's info from Citizens Information website for Carer's Allowance.

PRSI, union dues, superannuation (pension contributions including additional voluntary contributions) and travel expenses are also deducted.

https://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/social_welfare/social_welfare_payments/carers/carers_allowance.html#l6abfb

This is the text for Carers Benefit

• The maximum amount you can earn is €332.50 per week. (€332.50 is your net income after you have deducted income tax and Universal Social Charge, PRSI, superannuation (pension payments), pension levy, union dues, subscriptions to Friendly Societies and any health insurance contract premium from your total wage.)

https://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/social_welfare/social_welfare_payments/carers/carers_benefit.html

I would advise you to email the section directly at Carersbenefit@welfare.ie