Carer’s Allowance
E58659
Carer’s Allowance is a UK welfare benefit that provides financial support to people who spend a substantial amount of time caring for someone with significant disability or health needs.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Carer’s Allowance canonical | 4 |
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
UK social security benefit
ⓘ
cash benefit ⓘ |
| administeredBy | Department for Work and Pensions ⓘ |
| administeredIn |
England
ⓘ
Northern Ireland ⓘ Scotland ⓘ Wales ⓘ |
| appliesTo | unpaid carers ⓘ |
| beneficiary | carer rather than cared-for person ⓘ |
| benefitType | non-contributory benefit ⓘ |
| canBeBackdated | for a limited period subject to rules ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| eligibilityCriterion |
cared-for person must receive a qualifying disability benefit
ⓘ
claimant must be aged 16 or over ⓘ claimant must not be in full-time education above a specified hours limit ⓘ claimant must not earn above a specified earnings limit ⓘ claimant must provide regular and substantial care ⓘ claimant must usually be habitually resident in the UK ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
care hours test
ⓘ
earnings test ⓘ qualifying benefit test for cared-for person ⓘ |
| hasShortDescription | benefit for people who care for someone with substantial disability or health needs ⓘ |
| interactionWith |
Carer’s Credit
ⓘ
Pension Credit ⓘ Universal Credit ⓘ |
| introducedIn | United Kingdom social security system ⓘ |
| isPartOf | UK welfare system ⓘ |
| language |
English
ⓘ
Welsh ⓘ |
| legalNature | statutory entitlement subject to conditions ⓘ |
| linkedTo |
Armed Forces Independence Payment
ⓘ
Attendance Allowance ⓘ Disability Living Allowance ⓘ Personal Independence Payment ⓘ |
| mayAffect |
other means-tested benefits
ⓘ
the cared-for person’s disability benefits premiums ⓘ |
| paymentFrequency | weekly ⓘ |
| paymentMethod | paid into bank account ⓘ |
| purpose |
provide financial support to carers
ⓘ
support people caring for someone with substantial disability or health needs ⓘ |
| regulatedBy | UK social security legislation ⓘ |
| requiresCareHoursPerWeek | at least 35 hours ⓘ |
| requiresClaim | application to Department for Work and Pensions ⓘ |
| requiresNotification | change of circumstances must be reported ⓘ |
| targetGroup |
low-income carers
ⓘ
working-age carers ⓘ |
| taxStatus | taxable income ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Carer’s Allowance Description of subject: Carer’s Allowance is a UK welfare benefit that provides financial support to people who spend a substantial amount of time caring for someone with significant disability or health needs.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.