Family carers should be paid the living wage, a full-time carer has told the UK’s House of Lords. Nadia Taylor made the comment at a meeting of the House of Lords Adult Social Care Committee. Family carers should be paid the living wage, a full-time carer has told the UK’s House of Lords. Carers are “abandoned by society”, mum Nadia Taylor has told the House of Lords. She told the committee that carers are “abandoned by society”. Mum-of-two Taylor, 46, gave up work to care for her parents. They have chronic medical conditions.