Disabled people may be liable for back pay of sleep-in care workers

[Northerner]

Disabled people who employ their own care workers have begun to receive claims for back pay as the crisis over wages for sleep-in shifts forces intervention by the prime minister’s right-hand man.

Damian Green, first secretary of state, has stepped into the wages row and ordered an urgent assessment by government officials of the costs of meeting up to six years’ back pay for care workers who sleep at the homes of the people they support, in case they need help during the night.

Publicity generated by the row is triggering claims by workers employed directly as personal assistants (PAs) by some of the 65,000 disabled people in England who have personal budgets in the form of direct payments.

https://www.theguardian.com/social-...sabled-people-back-pay-sleep-in-carers-mencap

 

[mikeyB]

Oh aye, disabled folk are loaded with money, so they should pay all the back pay. Which planet does this government live on?

 

[Abi]

Government trying to absolve itself of any responsibilty by generating a torrent of blame and hatred between two groups for which it has little respect- the low paid and disabled people

 

[Bill Stewardson]

In this part of the "developed world" we have opinions about those countries who leave the disabled out in the cold to fend for themselves.

This from a society that allows children to come home from school and cook meals for disabled parents, closes dozens of Sure Start Centres, removes bus passes for special needs pupils to get to special schools, means tests benefits for people who then actually die while waiting for decisions, withdraws drugs from cancer patients, has been reducing disabled benefits since IDS was installed at the DWP, has a bedroom tax, yet the Govt talks of a strong economy and regularly demonises those who's lives are blighted by things well beyond their own control. Coroners highlight the misery that some people endure before they die cold and alone. A senior judge last week spoke out about the lack of care for a suicidal teenager.

https://www.theguardian.com/comment...n-benefit-sanctions-death-government-policies

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