Work and pensions committee chair tells ministers to fix carer’s allowance issues
27-04-2024 08:00 via theguardian.com

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

Stephen Timms says DWP letting unpaid carers incur ‘enormous accidental overpayments’Ministers have been told to “immediately” fix the issues causing tens of thousands of unpaid carers to incur “enormous accidental overpayments” amid growing anger over the carer’s allowance scandal.Stephen Timms, the chair of an influential parliamentary committee, said he was “very troubled” that scores of carers were being forced into financial distress as
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