Social welfare means review

It's just a random review to assess whether or not your circumstances have changed. I think it's 6 months of statements, you COULD redact your purchases but I wouldn't recommend doing that as it will only delay the process.

A few hundred won't affect your eligibility.

https://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/social_welfare/social_welfare_payments/carers/carers_allowance.html#l8fc49

That's not their job - their remit is to ensure you still mean the means assessment.

If there’s regular unexplained weekly amounts coming and going from your account then they will want to know the source or the destination of those monies.

Say your other siblings were giving you €100 per week to help you out and were transferring that money from one of their accounts to your account. Well that would be considered income.

If in a short period of time, amounts adding up to, or one lump sum of 2000 went in then you will probably be asked to explain that but once you have evidence of paying the garage then it will be fine.

Don’t worry at all.

As a carer, it is HIGHLY unlikely you will be cut off from electricity. If you live with the parent you are caring for (you don't say), then one of you would be eligible for the household benefits package.

Try not to worry about it.

The payment should really be a pro-rata payment. As it is, if you earn €350 a week you are deemed to need assistance in providing care but if you earn €351 a week's you are not.

Thanks. Glad to be corrected.

Please keep a detailed record of this - for your own benefit.

In every single society in the world since the start of time there are a certain section who are unemployable, for many different reasons.

Not through illness or disability but just not cut out for a days work.

They have to be looked after. The problem we have now here and in the UK is two fold. First of all, what used to be quite a small % of our population is growing all the time, alarmingly. Secondly the amount of help (money) they receive is also ballooning out of all control. The state is under severe pressure from the opposition constantly to keep increasing the payments. It’s quite alarming really.

Outrageous nonsense 😳 you clearly are not aware there are very experienced posters on this forum who have insight into how the welfare system works, your friend is clearly living in a parallel universe.

Notwithstanding your absurd post, DA is perhaps the most difficult payment to be approved for. There is absolutely no evidence whatsoever DSP put long term unemployed on a payment they would neither qualify for or be entitled to, a payment that requires substantial medical evidence and reports.

Your post is by far the most absurd nonsense I've seen on this site in 12 years 🙄

LOL a "funny" post- to put it mildly. So you have a deep throat in the DoSP.

Tell us- what is a "difficult and threatening unemployed"?

Dear lord, keep digging. You've clearly not checked my posting history which I drastically reduced over the past year because of ill informed folks like you posting absolute nonsense in a pathetic attempt to bait a reaction.

You then link to an article about a burglar who happens to be on DA as if to justify your bile and absurd earlier post. DA is not just awarded to folks with physical Disibilities.

You then attempt to suggest I'm a bully because I dared critised your viterol , again utter claptrap. I stand over my posting history and will call out nonsense and misinformation when I see it.

You've both said that the granting of DA was extremely difficult to obtain yet a judge no less described someone receiving it as extraordinary and the less said about it the better.

I didn't question anything about advice Dempo has given, what i did question was the shouty down attitude they have for posters who don't agree with them as clearly advertised above by their reply to me.

you alleged that certain people are “put” on DA, sometimes because they are threatening.

You alleged that someone with a lot of experience with SW told you this.

So either you “made up” this person or this person is spoofing you.

I have 19 years experience with SW and the people who apply for SW and the people who process the applications.

I hope you accept now that no one is ever put on a payment of any kind. I hope you can see that you have insulted anyone who posts here about their struggles applying for DA and CA despite much evidence. I know that wasn’t your intention but that will have been the consequence.

Yes many people with substance abuse issues addiction problems and mental health problems are getting DA. Who are you though to contradict the many health professionals who supported them in their applications??

As above please don't attribute someone else's comments to me