Ten years of bureaucratic failure, whistleblowing, political neglect and groundhog day-style policy inertia
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DWP to reassess hundreds of thousands of cases in carer’s allowance scandal
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‘It’s like the Post Office scandal’: victims of carer’s allowance crisis speak out
Ministers have announced a major review of the penalties imposed on hundreds of thousands of unpaid carers after a damning independent investigation of the carer’s allowance scandal.
The inquiry by Liz Sayce was launched after the Guardian revealed how a catalogue of failures at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) had left scores of vulnerable families with huge debts and hundreds with criminal convictions for fraud.
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