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Unpaid carer to challenge DWP allowance overpayment penalty in court

The Guardian

It takes the little people to stand up, says Andrea Tucker, who was told to repay 4,600 after caring for mother for 15 years An unpaid carer is to challenge in the courts an unfair and nonsensical demand by welfare officials to repay 4,600 in carers allowance overpayments, five years after being advised by the same department she was following benefit (..)