Dataset: Carer's Allowance (All Entitled cases)
Field: Grouped amount of benefit
Description
Carer’s Allowance is paid directly to the claimant.
Weekly award amount is sourced from payment details held on the benefit payment source system.
Classification
Benefit weekly award is applicable to: All claimants
Weekly award amounts
Nil payment
Under £20.00
£20.00 to under £40.00
£40.00 to under £60
£60.00 to under £80
£80.00 to under £100
£100.00 to under £150
£150.00 and over
999 Unknown
Total number of categories:
By weekly award amounts: 9
Quality Statement
The amount of Carer's Allowance is unavailable prior to August 2003. Amount is affected by the introduction in April 2003 of Child Tax Credit. From that date there were no new child dependency increases (CDI) awarded to CA claimants, although existing CDIs were transitionally protected.
It is possible that errors can occur in the recording of weekly award (both on a form and inputting onto a computer system during the processing of the claim).
In particular, it is possible that, for some claimant records, the monthly award may be recorded instead of the weekly award. Therefore, care should be taken when looking at high weekly award bands broken down by local authority or parliamentary constituency.