Failures by Tory ministers and welfare officials led to carer’s allowance crisis, review finds

Unpaid carers were pushed into debt and distress and hundreds of millions of pounds of taxpayers’ money wastedUK politics live – latest updatesRepeated failures by Tory ministers and top welfare officials pushed hundreds of thousands of unpaid carers into debt and distress, and led to hundreds of millions of pounds of taxpayers’ money being wasted, a devastating review has concluded.The independent review of carer’s allowance benefit overpayments identified “systemi