New rules could leave councils paying carers' pensions

摘要

Local authorities could end up footing the bill for carers' pensions, under new guidelines, which have come in this month. The new pension rules came into effect on 1 June and mean that any carers who are age 22 and over and paid more than £833 a month (equivalent to more than £10,000 a year), must join the Government's auto-enrolment pension scheme. Questions have been raised in the national media about whether people who hire their own carers through their personal social care budgets are now aware that the law has changed.