Some women were complaining about having to pay for the creche today.

Frank you forgot to say when you got your London Pension you also told us you got a very hefty redundancy payment,so why should you get help from outside of your family you obviously did what was financially good for you at the time,and be careful you are going to make yourself ill fretting about who gets what and why they get it,I have never come across such an outlook on life as yours.I don't begrudge anything spent on services at all,I could complain about never needing the Fire Service/or the cost of schools now mine don't attend the list is endless.

Exactly glammanana !

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phoenix

I wish I could just leave well alone but it's like an itch that I just have to scratch !

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Aren't we just giving oxygen to his ridiculous posts by commenting?

gillybob

Don't worry
I was paying out more in tax than what I was getting in carers allowance.
Carers allowance is not means tested and Dad was entitled to attendance allowance so that triggered off carers allowance.
Income from working over a certain amount will disqualify you from getting carers allowance but not from having an occupational pension in payment.
If you are getting a state pension you can not qualify for carers allowance.
If I could not have looked after Dad he would have had to gone in to care and the tax payer would have had to pay a lot more than my carers allowance.
The council could not have got any money from the house as

a) I am an owner occupier.
b) I was over 60 at the time.

Frank