Overview
- The UK Parliament petition, launched by Angela Templeton, calls for raising the full-time rate from £83.30 to at least £800 a week.
- The petition claims the uplift would provide roughly £3,200 a month to nearly one million unpaid carers.
- Support stands at more than 3,300 signatures, below the 10,000 needed to trigger a formal government response.
- Carer’s Allowance remains £83.30 a week paid by the DWP, typically issued every four weeks as £333.20.
- The DWP highlights a higher earnings limit of £196 a week—described as the biggest cash increase—which it says will benefit over 60,000 carers by 2029/30, and Scotland’s equivalent Carer Support Payment operates at the same rate for those providing 35 hours of unpaid care.