A commission will spend a year gathering evidence to help tackle unpaid carers' financial hardship
Carers NI says it is "really worrying" to hear that a fifth of carers are relying on credit cards and overdraftsmore than a quarter experiencing poor mental health.
"You can't just go out and get a job because you need to care for the person you're responsible for."Orla Fitzsimons has three children, one of which has learning difficulties and complex mental health issues - as a 'parent carer' she receives no financial support and had to give up a well-paid job in the health service 10 years ago.
"There's no that way I can improve the financial situation of my family unless I'm working," the mother-of-three from Downpatrick, County Down said. "Work of the Carer Poverty Commission really critical to designing policy solutions, to better support all unpaid carers financially and to begin to actually make visible and identify and tackle the unacceptable levels of carer poverty in Northern Ireland," she said.
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