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As the day ends, remember: thousands of unpaid carers spent years being punished by a system designed to trip them up.

When will justice arrive?

#Carers #DWP #CarersAllowance #UKPolitics
https://thewhipline.substack.com/p/unpaid-carers-overpayments-will-be

Anything but Basic Income, isn't it?

Gotta make us all jump through hoops for government money, how dare we exist and have needs...

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/nov/25/failures-tory-ministers-welfare-officials-carers-allowance-crisis-review-finds

#CarersAllowance #UKPOL #UKPOLITICS #BasicIncome #Tories #Poverty #Health #Caring

"Many carers said they were harassed and treated like criminals by DWP staff. Hundreds were convicted of benefit fraud”

DWP to reassess hundreds of thousands of cases in carer’s allowance scandal
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/nov/25/dwp-to-reassess-hundreds-of-thousands-of-cases-in-carers-allowance-scandal

#welfarebenefits #carers #dwp #claimants #fakefraud #carersallowance

Ed Davey Calls for Suspension of Carer’s Allowance Penalties Amid System Failures

Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey has urged the UK government to suspend penalties imposed on unpaid carers who have breached the discredited carer’s allowance rules, pending a comprehensive reform of the system. A Guardian investigation revealed that hundreds of thousands of carers face significant ... [More info]

DWP PIP changes will hit carers with a £650 million cut every year www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/... #DWP #PIP #CarersAllowance #Carers

5.7 million unpaid carers save...

DWP PIP changes will hit carers with a £650 million cut every year
https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2025/05/31/dwp-pip-carers-cuts/

#DWP
#PIP
#CarersAllowance
#Carers

Presumably “In future, all reports will be checked, so that claimants can be notified and avoid getting into debt” means more carers will be identified as claiming the Carers Allowance benefit when they are deemed ineligible, meaning more “fraud” detected by the DWP and less build up of that “overpayment” but many more people losing support (and still having to repay every previous penny received?).

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/15/the-guardian-view-on-unpaid-carers-the-scandal-of-their-allowances-is-far-from-over

#carersallowance #welfarebenefits #socialprotection #carers #dwp #uk

Halt Carer's Allowance overpayments now | Carers UK action.carersuk.org/page/167242/... #CarersAllowance #Carers

Ask your MP to support Carers ...

Halt Carer's Allowance overpayments now | Carers UK
https://action.carersuk.org/page/167242/action/1

#CarersAllowance
#Carers

I just signed this important petition on Organise, please can you add your name?

Petition: Write-off the carer’s allowance debt!
Carers have been badly abused by the current system, if they go £1 over the limit their allowance is totally removed and they end up in crippling debt.

https://organise.network/s/e9b76e4be92f
#petition #CarersAllowance #carersupportfailures #carersbenefits

Unpaid carers must be supported by the DWP and councils www.bigissue.com/opinion/unpa... #DWP #Overpayment #Work #CarersAllowance #UnpaidCarers #FamilyCarers #Carers

All we want for Christmas is f...

Unpaid carers must be supported by the DWP and councils
bigissue.com/opinion/unpaid-ca…

#DWP
#Overpayment
#Work
#CarersAllowance
#UnpaidCarers
#FamilyCarers
#Carers

Unpaid carers must be supported by the DWP and councils
https://www.bigissue.com/opinion/unpaid-carers-support-dwp-councils-care-full/

#DWP
#Overpayment
#Work
#CarersAllowance
#UnpaidCarers
#FamilyCarers
#Carers

New National Audit Office report about UK Carer's Allowance notes "it is important to identify an overpayment early or, better still, prevent it from happening".

The state already records deaths. It collects taxes on earnings. It has NI records. It has health records. It has education records. It has benefit records.

I also hope more effort (and auditing) is made identifying and preventing underpayment, and reducing under claiming.

https://www.nao.org.uk/press-releases/carers-allowance-overpayment-debt-reaches-250-million/

#welfarebenefits #carersallowance

Hidden faces of poverty: unpaid carers’ struggle for survival
https://centralbylines.co.uk/society/hidden-faces-of-poverty-unpaid-carers-struggle-for-survival/

#DWP
#Poverty
#CarersAllowance
#Carers

Do political donors get text messages for when their profits are about to be taxed so they can move them somewhere else? Or does that information get delivered over an expensive dinner?

"We think you're earning too much", what a thing to say to those on Benefits.....

#CarersAllowance #DWP #UKPOL #UKPolitics