The Guardian

JULY 28, 2024

Carer’s allowance ‘cliff edge’ means it has to be paid back if a penny is earned over threshold. Carers tell their stories A report by Carers UK has found teachers, NHS staff and other key workers who balance part-time work with caring for loved ones are quitting their jobs to avoid being hit with huge cash penalties for breaching carer’s allowance rules.

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The Guardian

JULY 28, 2024

Exclusive: Teachers and NHS staff forced to take desperate measures to avoid falling foul of earnings limits, says ‘devastating’ study ‘DWP threatened to send in bailiffs’: the unpaid carers told to repay benefit Analysis: Millions wasted, lives blighted: time to put an end to the carer’s allowance scandal Teachers, NHS staff and other key workers who balance part-time work with caring for loved ones are quitting their jobs to avoid being hit with huge cash penalties for breaching carer’s allowa

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The Guardian

JULY 28, 2024

A group of Muslim men put themselves in danger to calm unrest in Harehills over children being taken into care Nadsy Qurban bent his neck to show how the crown of his head was ­covered in a number of burns, each the size of coins. “The smell was like I’m burning some goat or something, like I’m cooking some goat. That’s how bad it was,” he said. Needless to say, it hurt.

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The Guardian

JULY 28, 2024

Changes will be complex and expensive, but so is the moral and economic cost of not resolving this sorry tale of misery and injustice Key workers quit jobs to avoid cash penalties for breaching carer’s allowance ‘DWP threatened to send in bailiffs’: the unpaid carers told to repay benefit The carer’s allowance overpayments scandal is surely one of the great public policy failures of recent years: a tale of official negligence and cruelty that has seen hundreds of millions of pounds of taxpayers’

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