Mom needs two people 4 times a day for her care needs. She gets in total 1 hour and 15 minutes each day. She is a self funder so she has to pay for her care. This month the weekly charges have gone up from £263.90 to £285.60. This will change her monthly bill from £1055.60 to £1143 per month. Her pension is only going up by 2.2 percent so this means it’s costing an extra £74 a month fro her care. This seems unfair to me. Is there anything that can be done?
So 8 hours and 45 minutes care per week costing her £1143
I am her primary carer so get carers allowance of almost £68 a week. Having had to give up teaching full time for the last two years, my salary los is around £1500 per month. Receiving carers allowance only allows me to earn £128 per week. I am very reluctant to leave mom for a whole day so have recently taken a part time job working two hours a day which is realistically the most time I feel able to leave mom alone. If I do a day as a teaching assistant, it’s not easy for mom and I feel guilty leaving her for 8 hours. I have done this occasionally (once a month or once a week) and earn £56 for the role but going forward I cannot see me doing this for much longer.This is obviously a situation that is financially detrimental to both of us. It can be very stressful as a carer. I organise medicines, meals, shopping , finances and all. my moms needs as she is virtually bedbound having to be hoisted out of bed to a recliner once a day. She has been in the same room now (except for 3 trips in her wheelchair to the garden) for nearly 2 years now. Very hard, considering her situation, she is amazing.