{"id":1517,"date":"2026-03-20T16:04:45","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T16:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalaccountants.com\/?p=1517"},"modified":"2026-03-23T11:43:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T11:43:13","slug":"help-for-carers-in-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalaccountants.co.uk\/index.php\/2026\/03\/20\/help-for-carers-in-the-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Help for Carers in the UK"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<p>If you regularly care for someone, you may be eligible for government support:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Carer\u2019s Allowance \u2013 payment for those caring 35+ hours per week.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Carer\u2019s Credit \u2013 National Insurance credits to protect your pension if caring 20+ hours per week.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Universal Credit \/ Pension Credit \u2013 additional support for caregivers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Even if you are not officially registered as a \u201ccarer\u201d but provide regular care, it is worth checking your eligibility<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you regularly care for someone, you may be eligible for government support: Even if you are not officially registered as a \u201ccarer\u201d but provide regular care, it is worth checking your eligibility<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1518,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-benefits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalaccountants.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalaccountants.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalaccountants.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalaccountants.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalaccountants.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1517"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/capitalaccountants.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1524,"href":"https:\/\/capitalaccountants.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517\/revisions\/1524"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalaccountants.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalaccountants.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalaccountants.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalaccountants.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}