Fiscal claim
Abolish carer's means test + living wage
Headline figure
Per-year impact
€700m
Welfare or transfer payment
Total over horizon
€700m
2025 onwards
Confidence
Stated in source
PBP variant of Carer's Allowance reform ≈ €700m/yr.
Attribution & links
- Origin
- Manifesto
- Owner
- People Before Profit
- Policy area
- Social Protection
- Underwrites commitment
- Abolish the Carer's Allowance means test
- First stated
- 2024-11-14
- Last reviewed
- 2026-05-23
Verification
Cross-checked against the source document. Quote captured verbatim where the figure is directly stated; gaps and mismatches are noted honestly.
Verified against People Before Profit GE2024 Manifesto, p.5: "Abolish the means test for carers allowance and give carers a Living Wage."
Evidence & sources
Every euro figure above ultimately traces back to the source document below.
Source
- People Before Profit GE2024 ManifestoPeople Before Profit·Retrieved 2026-05-23high
- People Before Profit GE2024 Manifesto, p.5 - verbatim figurePeople Before Profit·Retrieved 2026-05-23high
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