Carers Allowance affect on ESA

Hi,
I was migrated from Incapacity benefit to ESA Support group in 2012, with my benefit remaining at Incapacity rates. I’m also on enhanced PIP (both components). Will the Carers Allowance claimed by my Carer reduce my ESA payments. Many thanks.

Hi Gordon, thank you for your reply yesterday regarding my carer’s claim for CA. I perhaps should have mentioned that it is my wife that is claiming CA. Today, my wife spoke to the ESA department on my behalf. The person my wife spoke with was initially a bit unsure regarding those of us that migrated from IB to ESA Support group, so she had to seek advice, but eventually told my wife that because my ESA has included an adult dependency element for her, the fact that she has been awarded CA means that this part of my ESA will now stop being paid to me. In effect, we will end up only about £5 a week better off overall (plus my wife will get NI credits). The advisor told my wife that the removal of the adult dependency element that’s happening now, would also have happened under IB rules, if my wife had claimed CA back then, so it’s okay for them to do it now. It sounds logical, but I have never seen that written anywhere. Are they correct? Does this ruling really apply to those of us that were transferred from IB to ESA Support group? For obvious reasons I just don’t trust them. Many thanks Gordon for your time and advice.

Thank you Gordon. At least we are £5 better off with my wife claiming CA until she reaches pension age, plus her extra NI credits will increase her state pension slightly when she gets it. I’m due to get my state pension late next year, so at least I won’t have the hassle of ESA from then on. As far as I know, my ESA will stop at that point.
I couldn’t find the first of the references you gave, it didn’t appear to be there, but I did look at the second, not that I could make much sense of it.
Thank you again Gordon, getting at the truth without B&W’s help, would be nigh on impossible.