Ministers urged to apologise after review finds systemic failures led to carer’s allowance crisis

Unpaid carers were pushed into debt and distress and hundreds of millions of pounds of taxpayers’ money wasted‘Outdated and ever less fit for purpose’: five takeaways from the carer’s allowance reportMinisters are facing calls to apologise and pay compensation to hundreds of thousands of unpaid carers after a damning review of the benefit system revealed some considered suicide to escape their debts.A report ordered by the government on the longstanding failures within th