carer's allowance wait time?

Jasssss · 07-08-2012 2:37pm

Yes Linda That's right.I went to see could i get help with the kids going back to school but as I already said I am not showing up on his system.Linda any news yet.I cannot believe you are still waiting,would you not have gone straight to appeal.Now Linda I am asking this but I also sent my Dom through review but was turned down so i ended up going to appeal any way. My review was only 4 weeks back then.

Linda dub · 07-08-2012 5:38pm

Jasssss wrote: »

Yes Linda That's right.I went to see could i get help with the kids going back to school but as I already said I am not showing up on his system.Linda any news yet.I cannot believe you are still waiting,would you not have gone straight to appeal.Now Linda I am asking this but I also sent my Dom through review but was turned down so i ended up going to appeal any way. My review was only 4 weeks back then.

Hi jasssss
Rang earlier today same story with medical doctors in a queue to be looked at but loads in front me said be while im fed up altogether mind u got back to school allowance last week.... My husband bk hospital monday for all test results n hoping he can go bk work even partime ( hes on back work allow but couldnt work through illness ....)be smthing extra come in while wait reveiw n every little helps at this stage but if cant return work dunno how we go manage mind u wejust had too but behind in every bill mortgage etc cos cant afford pay them all... You only wait 4 weeks on reveiw ? If id known go take this long id def went for appeal !!!!!

endofrainbow · 08-08-2012 10:40am

called again this morning - they are currently working on early November 2011

shellebells · 08-08-2012 1:22pm

hi all, been waiting since nov 2011 and not a word back..anyboby know how long it actually takes them to get through a month, seem to have been on sep for ages!? and where are they now?

Jasssss · 09-08-2012 10:09am

I rang just now and i was told that they are on Oct 2011.I really do not know why the Minister is quoting 28 weeks average wait.I think somebody in her Dept needs to revise this figure.She is way off the mark.

shellebells · 09-08-2012 11:45am

it sounds like they are giving everybody a different answer..its an average of a year year wait which is madness! i sent all my paperwork in at begining of nov and they stamped and returned them towards the end of nov..so i ll take it mine will be in the Dec 2011 pile an im in for another 2 month wait!!!!!!!!!!!!!!ghrrrrrrrrrr

Berty · 09-08-2012 2:02pm

My father is ill and my mother is looking for it. They said it would take till December to go through it even though we applied in April.

A former minister got on the case recently and they magically pulled the form out to assure us they have it. What did they do?

They put it back in the queue where they found it.

Now, not to sound morbid but the person on the phone in Longford didn't seem to get this either. My father will likely be dead and buried by the time they review the application.

We live 200kms from the hospital. My mother needs the travel allowance, not the social welfare at all(fathers wages still getting paid for now).

So disappointing is the system.

Jasssss · 09-08-2012 3:12pm

Beer Baron I was told that they will only push your case forward if the person that is been cared for is very ill.If your dad is quite ill you should get back on to a Td straight away. That lady told me this morning that for most people it is taken up to a year to process each application.What a sham.The ordinary decent people are suffering yet again.

LegacyUser · 09-08-2012 4:32pm

Jasssss wrote: »

Beer Baron I was told that they will only push your case forward if the person that is been cared for is very ill.If your dad is quite ill you should get back on to a Td straight away. That lady told me this morning that for most people it is taken up to a year to process each application.What a sham.The ordinary decent people are suffering yet again.

My mother was very ill, she was given only weeks to live, a social worker rang and someone said it was on her desk, i had to forward bank statements. I did that, then month later got another letter for her doc to fill out. that was in february, she died in may...i am still waiting! since last september...dont know if they back date to when i applied. i left my job that was 500euro a week, to recieve 230 a week, so got behind with mortgage, electric, phone, credit card...electricity suggested i go to SVP...my mom spent time alot of time worrying bout whether i would get, it in the end i told her i did to put her at ease. Does any one know if they will still give me payment for the duration i cared for my Mom?

Berty · 10-08-2012 6:37am

The Citizens information website page says you get it from the date the receive the applications(so long as the dates are correct/legal and not backdated over a year-some chancers out there I suppose).

The payment is backdated but I imagine all we have outlayed so far for transport won't be covered. Limerick-Dublin-Limerick including hotels is not cheap.

endofrainbow · 10-08-2012 9:23am

Beer Baron wrote: »

The Citizens information website page says you get it from the date the receive the applications(so long as the dates are correct/legal and not backdated over a year-some chancers out there I suppose).

I doubt very much if people applying for Carer's Allowance are chancers. You just have to read the threads about the hardships and frustrations we have to contend with.

Berty · 10-08-2012 9:32am

endofrainbow wrote: »

I doubt very much if people applying for Carer's Allowance are chancers. You just have to read the threads about the hardships and frustrations we have to contend with.

You took me up wrong. I know the hardships of carers. I know 3 carers as it is and my mother has become a 4th.

Both the minister and the social welfare said(to us) that when the government announced that if you don't take up job opportunities provided to you under the Job Seekers Benefit/Allowance(persistently) they will cut your benefits. Soon after this the applications for carers allowance and illness benefit shot through the roof which I guess created this insane backlog. They now need to weed through them to find the "chancers" who might be claiming to be a carer for their career unemployed husband who might have some fickle infliction.

Carers, as well I know from looking at the promised weekly payment, doesn't cover half of the necessities people require to care for somebody.

On top of that I know the medical card side of things. My OHs medical card expires in March yet her incurable illness does not. We know, because I'm back working, that they won't give us another one so we're fecked on that end. Incurable illness, mounting medical bills, €120 extra per month on drugs(might have gone up even). :rolleyes: I guess I can just keep it under appeal for as long as I have ink in my pen.

Jasssss · 12-08-2012 11:05am

Well if what you are saying is true ,there is not a chance of those people getting the carers allowance.There are people on this forum that are caring for people who are seriously ill and cannot get the carer's allowance.In fact some of the caree's have died and the carer still have not been awarded the carers allowance. In the middle of 2011 the wait on average was 17 weeks.Then it went to 28 weeks and god knows what it is now standing at.Is there anyone that has had good news yet.

Berty · 12-08-2012 11:07am

I agree. We found out that our terminally I'll father who requires care is not sick enough apparently and we have been refused.

Linda dub · 12-08-2012 11:37am

Jasssss wrote: »

Well if what you are saying is true ,there is not a chance of those people getting the carers allowance.There are people on this forum that are caring for people who are seriously ill and cannot get the carer's allowance.In fact some of the caree's have died and the carer still have not been awarded the carers allowance. In the middle of 2011 the wait on average was 17 weeks.Then it went to 28 weeks and god knows what it is now standing at.Is there anyone that has had good news yet.

Its gone beyond a joke now jasssss the wait is endless dunno where they get the figures from..... Im not ringing anymore as just get soooo annoyed wth all different answers i get .....when i was refused after 36 weeks i thought an appeal would take months so went for reveiw 2 and half months later still hasnt even been looked at!!!!!!!!!!! No doubt i will be turned down but i dont know if i could face going down the appeal road...a year almost gone constantly waiting for news has been bad enough but dont think i could do it again ...

Jasssss · 12-08-2012 3:18pm

Linda I am pulling my hair out I can only imagine what you are going through.I hope you get it on review but if you dont appeal it Linda ,the appeals office are a seperate body from the carers section.Now I did not actually believe this until a friend of a friend told me that yes they are independent body within the department of social protection.Beer Baron,I dont know why but there seems to be a lot of people been refused because they are deemed not sick enough.I really am struggling to understand whats going on.I mean looking at linda review which is at 2 and a half months already is a joke.I got in touch with a TD but to be honest I dont think any TD can do much.

Jasssss · 12-08-2012 5:10pm

Beer Baron,are you saying you applied in April and have you had a reply already.Be it that it is a refusal.

endofrainbow · 16-08-2012 8:31am

UPDATE

Just got the letter this morning saying I have been approved for Carer's Allowance (back-dated to December 2011 + respite care grant).

34 weeks since I first applied but sense of relief , I just cannot describe.

Jasssss · 16-08-2012 8:40am

Congratulations,that is great news.

shellebells · 16-08-2012 11:14am

Great news! i rang this morn to see where i was on their system and they told me that they are on nov 2011 now and my application was in line for a decision..any know how long this part takes? she said a couple of weeks?

endofrainbow · 16-08-2012 11:59am

mine was not submitted til late December 2011 so hopefully you should hear very soon

Linda dub · 16-08-2012 12:23pm

endofrainbow wrote: »

UPDATE

Just got the letter this morning saying I have been approved for Carer's Allowance (back-dated to December 2011 + respite care grant).

34 weeks since I first applied but sense of relief , I just cannot describe.

That is just great news im
So pleased somebody on here is getting some good news for a change

LegacyUser · 16-08-2012 3:08pm

endofrainbow wrote: »

UPDATE

Just got the letter this morning saying I have been approved for Carer's Allowance (back-dated to December 2011 + respite care grant).

34 weeks since I first applied but sense of relief , I just cannot describe.

Thats great news, but my app went on system in november, i got text saying they were reviewing it on the 10th december. i dont understand this at all!! i am pleased for you endof rainbow, because i know how stressful it all is...

shellebells · 16-08-2012 6:09pm

mine also was received, stamped and some of my letters returned in nov 2011..so hopefully wont have too much longer of a wait!! pushing 38 wks now!!

LegacyUser · 17-08-2012 10:00am

I cannot understand how some people got documents back and others did not.I sent my application about 27 weeks ago and have heard nothing at all back.Unlike others I have not even gone up on the system yet.I sent my application by reg post and i'm glad i did because i know they got it.I really would love to know what way they process applications.I'm not as long as others on the forum but i'm getting really pissed off waiting.The minister has stated that there are only 9 cases over 44 weeks.I think i am heading to be the 10th.

endofrainbow · 17-08-2012 2:57pm

got the approval letter yesterday and the travel pass today....:)

Berty · 17-08-2012 3:00pm

endofrainbow wrote: »

got the approval letter yesterday and the travel pass today....:)

Fair play to you.

I'd love that(for my mother/carer) except now I have to get my car from Limerick - Dublin - Limerick tomorrow instead so I can get the carer up and down. Damn you Mater hospital where they can only do the surgery/tests.

jabarrett35 · 17-08-2012 3:12pm

Well after 54 weeks I received my travel pass today no approval letter. I knew I had been approved back in early July but I was told it would take weeks to be actioned. I was wondering does anyone have idea what the time is between receiving the travel pass and getting the actual payment?

endofrainbow · 17-08-2012 3:27pm

my approval letter told me my backdated payment and grant would be paid into my account in 3 weeks and to contact them if it wasnt

jabarrett35 · 17-08-2012 3:34pm

endofrainbow wrote: »

my approval letter told me my backdated payment and grant would be paid into my account in 3 weeks and to contact them if it wasnt

So with a bit of luck I just got them the other way round. Though I remember reading on an other thread that the person received the pass and then nothing, I'm not sure when they received the payment.

endofrainbow · 17-08-2012 3:35pm

travel pass is looked after by an office in Sligo - Carer's Allowance is in Longford. wouldn't do any harm to make a phone call.

jabarrett35 · 17-08-2012 3:49pm

endofrainbow wrote: »

travel pass is looked after by an office in Sligo - Carer's Allowance is in Longford. wouldn't do any harm to make a phone call.

Just rang letter was sent yesterday. I can't real believe it after all this time!!

endofrainbow · 17-08-2012 3:51pm

great news !

jabarrett35 · 17-08-2012 4:46pm

What I find strange is they ask for your email address on the application form yet they have never used it when communicating with me. Has anyone ever had an email from them? It would save money and speed up communication one would have thought, but what would I know!

Jasssss · 19-08-2012 12:39pm

Endofrain, I know your back payment is on the way but how soon do they actually start paying you your allowance.Is this straight away.

endofrainbow · 19-08-2012 3:38pm

backdated payment and new payment in 2 weeks according to the letter

Jasssss · 20-08-2012 11:08am

endofrainbow wrote: »

backdated payment and new payment in 2 weeks according to the letter

Ahhhhhhh this system is really stressing.Rang again and all im been told is we are still working on Nov 2011.If i hear this agsin i will scream.Then they said that they had sent me a text i got no text it works out that the system read my phone no wrong and text is gone to another person.Has anyone else heard anyjthing yet

Linda dub · 20-08-2012 3:36pm

Jasssss wrote: »

endofrainbow wrote: »

backdated payment and new payment in 2 weeks according to the letter

Ahhhhhhh this system is really stressing.Rang again and all im been told is we are still working on Nov 2011.If i hear this agsin i will scream.Then they said that they had sent me a text i got no text it works out that the system read my phone no wrong and text is gone to another person.Has anyone else heard anyjthing yet

Hi jasssss i rang AGAIN and was told this time that they only recieve medicals back from doctors every fortnight and same docs have to deal with disability invalidity as well as carers so thats reason take so long with reveiw ? Said no point ring back till mid sept as wont know anything ... Asked me was i turned down for any other reason than medical when i said no she asked was i sure ????? Wont be suprised if i am passed on medical and turned down again for another reason as it happened to someone on other thread ... im sick of whole lot it and i need to get some income in if im refused i have to
Look for a job but then who will look after my parents ....its a no win situation:(((((

Jasssss · 20-08-2012 4:31pm

Linda, I dont think they can refuse you on medical grounds and then refuse you on other grounds at a later stage.If I was you i would start asking around to see if they are allowed do this.Just to be one step ahead in case they hit you with this.I would be shocked if this happened.When you were refused in the first place all reasons should have been given.

jabarrett35 · 20-08-2012 4:55pm

Letter didn't turn up today! How long does it take to get a letter from Longford? Or was this another lie or miss truth?

Linda dub · 20-08-2012 7:30pm

grounds at a later stage.If I was you i would start asking around to see if they are allowed do this.Just to be one step ahead in case they hit you with this.I would be shocked if this happened.When you were refused in the first place all reasons should have been given.[/Quote]

I know jassss im nearly sure skate was turned down for one reason n wen went to appeal was totally different reason won in end but took almist two years .... Complete mess altogether im getting more annoyed each week waiting to hear .... 3 months this week since they recived my request for reveiw its a bloody disgrace

god arnt i full joys today

)))

endofrainbow · 24-08-2012 12:27pm

respite care grant arrived yesterday

jabarrett35 · 24-08-2012 12:36pm

endofrainbow wrote: »

respite care grant arrived yesterday

I'm very pleased for you. My letter still hasn't turned up. Rang on Wednesday ,they said it was due to be post yesterday, they confirmed this with a supervisor but I'll believe it when I actually have the letter. It still bugs me that they ask for your email address but never bother to use it.

Linda dub · 24-08-2012 12:46pm

endofrainbow wrote: »

respite care grant arrived yesterday

Thats great news endofrainbow at least you are getting sorted out  nice to hear somebody is getting good news from carers allowance 

Linda dub · 24-08-2012 12:48pm

jabarrett35 wrote: »

endofrainbow wrote: »

respite care grant arrived yesterday

I'm very pleased for you. My letter still hasn't turned up. Rang on Wednesday ,they said it was due to be post yesterday, they confirmed this with a supervisor but I'll believe it when I actually have the letter. It still bugs me that they ask for your email address but never bother to use it.

Its a joke almost everyone i speak to on
Phone tells me something different. Dunno what to think at times ........

jabarrett35 · 24-08-2012 4:34pm

My letter arrived this afternoon. Payment starts on the 13/9. Has anyone an idea when the arreas get paid?

Jasssss · 25-08-2012 5:54pm

I think another post said three weeks.Great news and long may it continue.Fingers crossed for the rest of us.

wilmelyty · 29-08-2012 10:47am

Anyone got any updates are they still on nov im waiting fourty weeks yesterday and still not a word going out of my mind waiting and after all this waiting i,ll probably get refused. They got my app nov 22 nd 2011.

LegacyUser · 29-08-2012 1:41pm

Phoned them today and was told they are still working on early november, he said another 5-6 weeks before i hear from them!!! I said someone that had applied in Dec has recieved payment, he laughed and said he doesnt know where i got that from...im thinking it is down to each individual how fast they get through their pile..

Linda dub · 29-08-2012 3:53pm

evohere wrote: »

Phoned them today and was told they are still working on early november, he said another 5-6 weeks before i hear from them!!! I said someone that had applied in Dec has recieved payment, he laughed and said he doesnt know where i got that from...im thinking it is down to each individual how fast they get through their pile..

Dont know what to think anymore its coming up to a year next week since i first applied and ive been turned down and am going into fourth month waiting on a reveiw of that decison ..... Never heard likes of it in my life

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