Thread: Being a carer
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Old 23-02-2023, 17:32   #6
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Re: Being a carer

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Originally Posted by Taf View Post
£69.70 for a MINIMUM 35-hour week is hardly decent recompense for being a Carer. And even that stops once you start to draw your State Pension.

And that much-fabled thing "Respite Care" has never been available for my wife and I over the past (almost) 30 years.

As it's a 24/7 job, I worked it out at roughly at 47p per hour.


So you can guess I'm angry at all these strikes for more money, and those saying they need food banks I suggest not having holidays, I ain't had one since 2019. Or stop going out for meals and quit smoking.
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