Rosemary, North east: http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/caringiswork/ It is essential that carers have a seperate benefit.

Jean, West Country: Carers in receipt of Carers Allowance have to prove that they are working for 35 hours. Now we are going to be put on job seekers allowance. How can someone who is already working, in most cases 24/7, be available for work or even considered to be seeking work? We already do. The carerspovertyprotest was formed by carers, for carers and is open to be viewed without joining. No one, as here stated, has had a board removed, for any reason, unlike the person stating this. Carers are an 'invisible' army, but, having our input virtually ignored for the recent strategy, are understandably very angry. With the recent increases in the cost of living, many will now be pushed below the poverty line, simply because they care.

Jean, west country: Carers in receipt of Carers Allowance have to prove that they are working for 35 hours. Now we are going to be put on job seekers allowance. How can someone who is already working, in most cases 24/7, be available for work or even considered to be seeking work? We already do. The carerspovertyprotest was formed by carers, for carers and is open to be viewed without joining. No one, as here stated, has had a board removed, for any reason, unlike the person stating this. Carers are an 'invisible' army, but, having our input virtually ignored for the recent strategy, are understandably very angry. With the recent increases in the cost of living, many will now be pushed below the poverty line, simply because they care

Clive, Penrith: Until the stupid inaccurate figures are corrected (there aren't 6 million disabled people let alone Carers, that's just a number plucked out of the air due to some vague census question) then the claim that "it's too expensive to pay more" will be used. And PLEASE don't use the Carers UK as an example of what all Carers think. Many of us Carers do NOT regard ourselves as charity cases, we are workers and deserve to be treated as such, not feeble minded pathetic people wringing our hands in despair.

Tony, Cumbria: Carers have been left suffer for far to long, the only reason carers issues have been neglected for so long by the government is because they know most carers can`t walk out and leave there carees, if we did this country would grind to a halt very rapidly, Carers have been used and abused long enough but this and previous governments, we are all starting to stand up and make our voices heard, a group of carers have got to together and are organising a nationwide protest for next year to protest, against carers issues the board can be found here http://carerspovertyprotest.myfreeforum.org/index.php It costs carers twice as much as any others to run there household and we get less than anyone else to do it on.

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