Mother of autistic son facing £10,000 debt after exceeding DWP rules by £1.92 weekly | Carers
The letter arrived three weeks after Christmas, and Gai Shahar and his wife Oksana exchanged looks of stunned disbelief. They had been following reports about a scandal linked to caregiver allowances that had left many families struggling with debts and criminal records. But they thought they were safe from it. Reading the letter, which was […]
DWP ‘blocked whistleblower giving evidence to carer’s allowance review’ | Civil service
The department for the labor pension has been accused of blocking an internal accused who has repeatedly issued an alarm to the independent review of the scandal hit, giving evidence of the caregiver's allowance. The DWP staff was told that it would be inappropriate to share knowledge about the inner structure of the system that […]
Woman, 86, told she no longer has to repay £13,000 in benefits in DWP U-turn | Benefits
An 86-year-old woman with severe dementia has been told by the Government that she no longer has to repay a £13,000 benefit debt after her story was featured in the Guardian. Thea Kasparis, who is partially blind and has been bedridden for two years, has been ordered to pay back a huge amount of money […]
‘No one would accept blame’: Carers highlight DWP failures over debt crisis | Society
Carers who have suffered overpayments of carer’s allowance ask the same question time and time again: they didn’t know they were breaching benefit rules, but welfare authorities did. Why were they not informed and the overpayments allowed to go unpaid for months, leaving them thousands of pounds in debt? In the case of the thousands […]