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Lib Dems to promise £1.5bn reform of carer’s allowance including debt amnesty

Proposals also include a £20-a-week boost to payments and an increased limit on earnings from part-time work

The Guardian - UK

Dithering DWP owes me £1,300 in carer’s allowance

I’m forced to survive on a credit card, racking up debts I can’t repay

The Guardian - UK

Half of universal credit claimants ‘lose money through automatic DWP deductions’

Thinktank says £1 lost in every £13 basic payment to repay debts to private landlords and utility firms and correct tax office errors

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Deaf man awarded £50,000 damages after mistreatment by jobcentre officials

Tribunal rules Paul Rimmer was subject to ‘character assassination’ and was not given specialist help

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‘It feels like contempt’: DWP tells 85-year-old dementia patient to repay £13k

Cypriot-born Sia Kasparis, who speaks limited English, was not told about disability premium overpayment for several years

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‘No one would accept blame’: Carers highlight DWP failures over debt crisis

Carers asked to repay sums as high as £20k say officials did not share eligibility information between departments

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I did ‘fit for work’ tests for the DWP. Here’s what I found

Letters: Dr Giles Youngs says it was hard to assess claimants’ fitness for work, especially when it came to their mental health. Plus a letter from Ian Henderson

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National Audit Office to investigate growing scandal over carer’s allowance

Government watchdog says action prompted by DWP’s lack of progress in tackling overpayments problems

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Equality regulator investigating DWP over treatment of disabled benefits claimants

THE Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is being investigated by the equality regulator over suspicions that its treatment of disabled benefits…

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DWP under investigation over disability benefit assessments after claimant deaths

Possible sanctions include an unlimited fine if ministers are found to have broken the law

The Independent UK

Inquiry to begin into DWP’s treatment of ill and disabled people on benefits

Some eligibility decisions have been linked to deaths of vulnerable claimants, and EHRC will examine if ministers acted unlawfully

The Guardian - UK

Universal Credit and other claimants to receive early DWP payment this week

DWP Universal Credit, PIP, and other benefit claimants may find their payments dates change this week

The National (Scotland)

Ministers clawing back £251m from carers hit by DWP’s allowance failures

‘Strikingly large’ sum being recouped from people who fell foul of system that did not flag overpayments

The Guardian - UK

Kate Garraway: persecution of carers has ‘horrible echo’ of Post Office scandal

Presenter, who cared for late husband, said she was approached by people in street pleading for intervention

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Carer’s allowance report a vivid insight into failings of an unfit system

Little wonder welfare ministers were so reluctant the publish the study they commissioned five years ago

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Ministers knew about carer’s allowance problems three years ago, report reveals

Suppressed DWP study told of hardship endured by carers forced to repay thousands after minor allowance breaches

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MPs call for issues leaving carers with huge debts to be fixed ‘without delay’

Committee chair says UK government has known for years about flaws in benefit system and needs to ‘get a grip’

The Independent UK

Ministers urged to act quickly on state pension communication compensation plans

It comes after a Work and Pensions Committee session with campaigners from Women Against State Pension Inequality (Waspi) and the PSHO.

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The Guardian - UK

Ministers apologise and return £7,000 in benefits to woman, 93, with dementia

Exclusive: Elderly woman was allowed to run up debts in ‘disturbing’ case, the latest to emerge in Guardian investigation

The Guardian - UK

MPs call on spending watchdog to investigate DWP overpayments to carers

Select committee says scale of problem, carers’ testimony and cost to taxpayer warrants second inquiry into benefits system

The Guardian - UK

Carer’s allowance scandal is not going away – but will DWP reform happen?

After the Guardian exposé there is pressure on ministers to save people from a system described as ‘setting carers up for a fall’

The Guardian - UK

DWP’s unchecked database leaves tens of thousands of carers at risk of debt

About 50% of earnings ‘alerts’ for carer’s allowance overpayments not looked at by staff, figures reveal

The Guardian - UK

Work and pensions committee chair tells ministers to fix carer’s allowance issues

Stephen Timms says DWP letting unpaid carers incur ‘enormous accidental overpayments’

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Hailed as a hero and then sacked: the carer’s allowance whistleblower

Enrico La Rocca helped expose profound failures but less than a year later was dismissed by the DWP – and then later rehired

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Sunak under pressure to grant amnesty to unpaid carers fined for rule breaches

Concern grows over legality of approach as figures show more than 150,000 carers facing huge penalties

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