Please could someone inform me if carers allowance is taken into consideration for housing benefit and council tax?

I have been receiving carers allowance for around three years for my disabled wife, at the time I contacted my local authority to inform them that I had been awarded Carers Allowance to see if it would affect my housing benefit and council tax and I was informed no it does not affect these benefits.

I received an ESA2 form this week, which is a renewal for ESA asking for information on savings and benefits etc. I checked the benefits that are being received on the entitledto website and it appears that carers allowance is taken into consideration when working out housing benefit and council tax, and it appears that I should have been paying around £12 a week towards HB & CT for the last three years.

Hello there.

Is your wife claiming any benefits please?

HB

Yes, she is claiming ESA (support group) and DLA (middle care).

Thank you. I'm wondering if your wife would also be entitled to HB and CT reductions because of her benefits.

Others know more than me, hopefully they will post later.

HB

Is ESA income based?

Is ESA income based?

It's Income Related ESA.. Forgot to add that she has also got a small occupational pension of £13.21 a week, which wasn't taken into account Pre-Carers Allowance award date.

It may be the occ pension, cares doesnt affect my HB, its reported but disregarded

I returned the ESA2 form around a week ago and I have now been sent an ESA5 form to complete, this form is regarding pensions. I believe that I may have made a mistake on the ESA2 form when I declared that the pension was an occupational pension.

The pension that I believe my wife is receiving is an annuity insurance policy, probably a successor annuity policy? I am phoning the insurance company on Monday to see if they can shed any light on what type of policy it is. My wife receives a monthly payment of £13.21 a week, which commenced when her first husband died and all correspondence refers it to be an annuity.

Regarding the latest ESA5 form what type of pension should I state is it? The last option (see pic) on the ESA5 form seems to be to most appropriate "Pension paid to you as a beneficiary because of a death of a member of a pension scheme".

Any advice would be very much appreciated