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Carers allowance for someone in college

  • 31-05-2018 9:24pm
    #1
    lauraww
    Registered Users Posts: 189 ✭✭


    Hi there can you please tell me would I get carers allowance for my adult son who suffers with mental health issues should he attend college full time? Thank you


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  • #2
    lulu1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,815 ✭✭✭lulu1


    lauraww wrote: »
    Hi there can you please tell me would I get carers allowance for my adult son who suffers with mental health issues should he attend college full time? Thank you

    No I dont think you would get carers allowance for your son.

    He might be able to get to a social welfare payment for himself

    check out www.welfare.ie


  • #3
    baby and crumble
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,512 ✭✭✭baby and crumble


    lauraww wrote: »
    Hi there can you please tell me would I get carers allowance for my adult son who suffers with mental health issues should he attend college full time? Thank you

    Afraid not, to recieve carers allowance you have to be providing fulltime care in the home - if he's in college that's not possible. Also it's tough to get CA for someone with a mental health concern, because it's hard to really quantify the time spent caring, unfortunately.


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