{"id":39,"date":"2020-11-16T15:26:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-16T15:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/local.care\/?p=136"},"modified":"2021-02-22T15:14:18","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T15:14:18","slug":"claiming-benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surestartfostering.org.uk\/?p=39","title":{"rendered":"Claiming Benefits"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"part-title\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\">Claiming benefits &#8211;<\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"gem-c-govspeak govuk-govspeak direction-ltr disable-youtube\" data-module=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Check a <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><a style=\"color: #ff6600;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/benefits-calculators\">benefits calculator<\/a> <\/span>to see what you\u2019re eligible for.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re claiming benefits you need to tell the organisation that pays you that you\u2019re also getting a foster care allowance.<\/p>\n<p>You can get disability benefits for your foster child if they meet the criteria. You may also be able to claim <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><a style=\"color: #ff6600;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/carers-allowance\">Carer\u2019s Allowance<\/a><\/span> if your foster child gets <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><a style=\"color: #ff6600;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/disability-living-allowance-children\">Disability Living Allowance<\/a><\/span> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/pip\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Personal Independence<\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Payment<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>For more help on how your benefits may change you can speak to an adviser from:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the organisation that pays you<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><a style=\"color: #ff6600;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.surestartfostering.org.uk\" rel=\"external\">Sure Start<\/a> <\/span>&#8211; a free fostering advice service<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<nav class=\"gem-c-pagination\" role=\"navigation\" aria-label=\"Pagination\"><\/nav>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Claiming benefits &#8211; Check a benefits calculator to see what you\u2019re eligible for. If you\u2019re claiming benefits you need to tell the organisation that pays you that you\u2019re also getting a foster care allowance. You can get disability benefits for your foster child if they meet the criteria. You may&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surestartfostering.org.uk\/?p=39\">&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":692,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surestartfostering.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surestartfostering.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surestartfostering.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surestartfostering.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surestartfostering.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/surestartfostering.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":808,"href":"https:\/\/surestartfostering.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions\/808"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surestartfostering.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surestartfostering.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surestartfostering.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surestartfostering.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}