Member

The tariff amounts that carers receive should be reconsidered and revised upwards. To deny 25% of compensation to non-family carers because they were not professionals is outrageous. Talk to the parents and non-family carers of these infected children; they were trained way beyond what normal people would do. One of them has written to me to say that there was a carers’ panel at IBCA on 28 January this year. Of the six carers who attended, only one received support payments from the schemes, and it was clear that the majority of carers from the support schemes are having 25% deducted from their proposed care award. It is argued that they cared non-gratuitously and therefore need tax and national insurance deducted. However, despite many carers being short on NI stamps because they cared, the money is not being credited to their national insurance accounts, so family carers are not allowed to claim for loss of income, career damage or personal injury, and are being given 25% less than the minimum wage for being put through hell on earth caring for an infected blood victim. One person says: