Monday 5 August 2019

Carers saving Treasury £billions every year “set up for a fall” by design of Carer’s Allowance

Carers saving Treasury £billions every year “set up for a fall” by design of Carer’s Allowance The Work and Pensions Committee calls on DWP to completely reassess its approach, consider writing off debts due to its own protracted administrative failures in its report on the Overpayments of Carer’s Allowance.

Carers are being disproportionately heavily penalised for years of DWP administrative errors or their own honest mistakes, in a confusing and outdated system where the IT cannot even adapt a basic information letter within a year, says the Work and Pensions Committee in a new report

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