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Carers

July 2024

  • Debbie cares full-time for her elderly mother, works part-time as a cleaner, and claims carer's allowance of £81.90 a week. But she was one of hundreds of thousands of carers to receive a demand from the Department for Work and Pensions to pay back large sums of money for inadvertently going slightly over the earnings limit. Now Debbie and carers like her are starting to fight back and demand change to the system

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    Carer's allowance crisis
    I'm under attack and fighting back: the scandal trapping carers - video

  • Conor Thackray, one of the carers who spoke to the Guardian, outside his home.

    The Guardian view on supporting carers: flawed rules around allowances must be fixed

  • Rachel Reeves

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    UK politics: Winter fuel payments to be restricted as Reeves says there is £22bn spending shortfall – as it happened

  • Elizabeth Tait and her son Oliver sitting on sofa at their home

    Carer's allowance crisis
    ‘DWP threatened to send in bailiffs’: the unpaid carers told to repay benefit

  • Carer's allowance crisis
    Key workers quit jobs to avoid cash penalties for breaching carer’s allowance

  • Carer's allowance crisis
    Millions wasted, lives blighted: time to end the carer’s allowance scandal

  • ‘Redefine conversation’: how Just a Minute can help people living with dementia

  • Carer's allowance crisis
    Rachel Reeves must overhaul ‘perverse’ carer’s allowance rule, Martin Lewis says

  • When social housing policy leaves children bereaved and homeless

  • Vocal critic of carer’s allowance scandal to oversee the benefit as minister

  • Hospital discharges limiting home care in England, councils say

  • Your problems, with Anna Tims
    I’ve been denied carer’s allowance for eight months after I owned up to a job

  • Lib Dems to push for cross-party talks on tackling social care

  • I saw my mum forced to fight and cajole as a carer. When will politicians end the conspiracy of silence on adult social care?

    Rory Kinnear

June 2024

  • Natasha Walter

    Gender, poverty, violence: all matter to women, and all must matter to Labour

    Natasha Walter
  • Minreet Kaur in a white blouse and red trousers (right) with her mother in a floral sleeveless blouse

    Life as an unpaid carer in the UK: ‘I feel unseen and unheard – and politicians don’t offer much’

  • a woman hands a plate of food to a smiling 80 -year old woman at the dinner table

    Unpaid UK carers ‘face financial hit that can last decades’

  • Natacha Gray sitting in her wheelchair.

    Life with long Covid
    ‘A 30-second walk would exhaust me beyond reason’: Natacha’s life with long Covid

  • Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    General election TV Q&A: Sunak refuses to accept tax burden will definitely rise during next parliament – as it happened

  • Carer's allowance crisis
    Lib Dems to promise £1.5bn reform of carer’s allowance including debt amnesty

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