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   Juggling With Eggs (jugglingwitheggs@mstdn.social)'s status on Sunday, 30-Mar-2025 19:51:23 JST Juggling With Eggs

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   ‘Latest official figures show more than 134,500 unpaid carers are paying back more than £251m after unwittingly falling foul of drastic “cliff-edge” rules on earnings limits.

   This means a carer who earned £1 more than the current £151 a week threshold for 52 weeks would have to pay back not £52 but £4,258.80.’

   No level legal playing field in UK terms of richest and poorest.

   https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/feb/10/unpaid-carer-to-challenge-dwp-allowance-overpayment-penalty-in-court#

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     Juggling With Eggs (jugglingwitheggs@mstdn.social)'s status on Sunday, 30-Mar-2025 19:51:24 JST Juggling With Eggs

     ‘#Labour hopes to boost the public coffers by billions of pounds with its crackdown on tax avoidance and evasion.

     But figures obtained by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism reveal that fewer than five such prosecutions were brought in 2023-2024, down from 16 in 2018-2019.’

     Meanwhile more than 600 carers have been prosecuted since 2019 for fraud.

     Priorities?

     https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/mar/30/prosecution-of-people-who-help-clients-evade-tax-in-uk-falls-by-75-in-five-years

     GreenSkyOverMe (Monika) and Aral Balkan repeated this.