Bearings works out what support applies, which legal rights exist, and what to do first. Four minutes, free.
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Illustrative only. Your report shows what applies to your situation, and links to the GOV.UK page behind every figure.
No jargon, no PDFs to download, and no being told to "contact your local authority" without being told what to say when you do.
Who you look after, roughly how much, their age, and what's already claimed. Tap to answer — nothing to look up or measure.
What support applies with real figures, which legal rights already exist, and the three things worth doing first — in the right order.
If a claim form is next, the Claim Pack turns what you've told us into the language the form is actually asking for.
Around 60% of Attendance Allowance claims are rejected, and it's rarely because someone didn't qualify. It's because they described their best day.
The form asks what help you need. Most people answer "I manage" — the most expensive sentence on the page. The Claim Pack asks the questions a decision-maker would, then writes it back in the language the form is looking for.
Coordination tools assume you already know what you're doing and just need to organise it. For most people the problem is the opposite.
No — and that would lose claims, not win them. Decision-makers reject inconsistency. The problem is the opposite: the form asks what you can do reliably, repeatedly, safely and on most days, and people answer for the one good day they had. Answering accurately usually means answering worse than you'd say out loud to a friend. That's not exaggeration, it's the first honest answer most people give.
Yes. Age UK, Citizens Advice and many local carers' centres do form-filling for free, and they're good at it. The catch is waiting lists. We're for people who'd rather do it tonight. If you can wait, use them — we'd rather say so than pretend otherwise.
No, deliberately. You copy the words onto your own form and submit it yourself, in your own name. It's your claim, in your words — which is both safer for you and how it should be.
DWP published rates for the current benefits year and the underlying legislation. Every figure links to the GOV.UK page it came from so you can check it. Rates change each April and we update then.
Not yet. Social care is devolved and the systems genuinely differ — Scotland has replaced Carer's Allowance with Carer Support Payment and uses different capital limits. We'd rather say so than give you England's answers with a Scottish flag on them.
Most people in this position don't think of themselves that way, and it costs them. Shopping, appointments, medication, finances, or just checking in every day because you're worried — that's unpaid care, and the entitlements are the same whatever you call it.
If it's more than one person, pick whoever takes most of your time.
This decides which support applies to them — the rules change at State Pension age.
Count everything — appointments, shopping, phone calls, paperwork, worrying at 3am. Most people badly underestimate this.
This one matters a lot — several other entitlements unlock from it.
There's an earnings limit on Carer's Allowance with a hard cliff edge, so this changes the answer.
Their adult social care team — for an assessment, a care package, or anything else.
This decides what goes at the top of your report.
Your report appears on the next screen either way — this is so you can come back to it.