29 March 1994 Ageing International Paying for Informal Care An Issueof Growing Importance by Adalbert Evers and Kai Leichsenring ayment made to informal caregivers has a long history in the form of various family and child care al- lowances. A more restricted definition of such pay- ments captures only that extra care that relates to dependent people and is beyond the daily care duties of raising children or helping each other in families and communities. Allowances for this extra care may take the form of compensation for foster care, for dis- ability care, or the care of frail elderly people. This ar- ticle, based on our own and others' research in this