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MPs criticise behaviour of senior DWP officials over carer’s allowance scandal

Top DWP civil servant accused of giving out ‘a lot of blancmange’ over department’s response during hearing

The Guardian - UK

Pause on action plan related to Waspi investigation was needed – DWP boss

Sir Peter Schofield told MPs that a ‘series of campaigns’ are already under way to help raise awareness of state pensions.

Evening Standard

Pressure grows on DWP over ‘misleading’ response to carer’s allowance scandal

Senior officials face criticism after review found systemic failings plunged hundreds of thousands of unpaid carers into debt

The Guardian - UK

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DWP needs overhaul to restore trust after carer’s allowance scandal, adviser says

Liz Sayce, who led inquiry into department’s failures, ‘distressed’ at carers being blamed for running up huge overpayments

The Guardian - UK

Senior DWP civil servant blames victims for carer’s allowance scandal

Neil Couling said failings by individual claimants ‘at the heart’ of crisis, despite a report finding DWP shortcomings ‘unacceptable’

The Guardian - UK

‘Outdated and ever less fit for purpose’: five takeaways from the carer’s allowance report

Dysfunctional DWP failed to notify some carers that they were accruing enormous debt for years, Liz Sayce’s damning report reveals

The Guardian - UK

The carer’s allowance scandal – a timeline

Ten years of bureaucratic failure, whistleblowing, political neglect and groundhog day-style policy inertia

The Guardian - UK

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Inertia, denial and failure: timeline of the UK carer’s allowance scandal

Promises were made to fix the problem over a decade yet nothing changed – meanwhile carers continue to suffer

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

Why are so many carers being taken to court for benefit fraud?

A badly designed system and what one MP called ‘shocking ineptitude’ at the DWP has created hardship

The Guardian - UK

Teacher’s partner found buried under bark, rubble and bricks, jury told

Fiona Beal, 49, is alleged to have murdered 42-year-old Nicholas Billingham in a bedroom before hiding his body in their back garden.

The Independent UK

Martin Lewis urges married or widowed women on old State Pension to check for £6,000 underpayment

The DWP is currently correcting an underpayment error which affected hundreds of thousands of women.

Daily Record

DWP State Pension backpay on the cards after thousands underpaid £1.5bn

DWP accounts for 2021-22 show that around 237,000 older people have been underpaid their State Pension

Nottingham Post

DWP now reviewing 700,000 State Pension claims for underpayment errors made up to 30 years ago

The DWP correction exercise has already identified underpayments worth a total of £1.46billion for 237,000 older people.

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Daily Record

DWP identifies further 100,000 older people who may be due State Pension back payments averaging £6,500

The DWP correction exercise will now be checking 700,000 State Pension claims for any underpayment errors.

The Independent UK

Lawsuit: Utah firm and lawmaker helped Mormons hide abuse

Three children who were sexually abused by their father are accusing a Utah state legislator and a prominent Salt Lake City law firm of conspiring with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to cover up their abuse and allowing it to go on for years

Daily Record

DWP confirms new claims for PIP at record high as 327,000 people await health assessments

The backlog is worth an estimated £300 million in benefit payments.

Insider UK

Mabbett acquires Hampshire-based consultancy

The combined group to employ more than 100 people across 13 UK offices

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Birmingham Post

Compensation 'worth more than £1m' sought from BDO by car care giant

Tetrosyl is owned by chairman Peter Schofield and employs more than 1,100 people

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