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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

The Guardian - UK

‘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

The Guardian - UK

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

The Guardian - UK

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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

The Guardian - UK

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…

The National (Scotland)

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

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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

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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

The Guardian - UK

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

The Guardian - UK

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

The Guardian - UK

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 Guardian - 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

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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’

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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

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

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

The Guardian - UK

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

The Guardian - UK

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

The Guardian - UK

Ministers pledge to publish long-buried study into impact of fines on carers

DWP carried out research in response to criticism five years ago but has consistently refused to publish it

The Guardian - UK

UK government dementia adviser resigns over prosecutions of carers

Johnny Timpson says he wants to ‘take a stand’ after revelations thousands of unpaid carers are being forced to pay huge fines

The Guardian - UK

MPs call for carer’s allowance review as numbers overpaid soars

Figures show 34,500 people incurred overpayments last year after falling foul of rules, landing many with huge debts

The Guardian - UK

‘We’re already vulnerable’: the carers told to repay huge sums by the DWP

Some of the tens of thousands penalised for ‘honest mistakes’ tell how their lives have been affected

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