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Overpayments of carer's allowance (paid over months) that the DWP tries to claw back as lump sums, seem to have been running at over £50m a year for the last six years & its largely the DWP's fault for letting overpayments continue for too long even when they'd been notified that payments should have been stopped.

As always its a tale of badly used technology & staff cuts, but carers lives have been made miserable because the DWP couldn't do its job properly!

#carers
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/may/19/at-least-357m-in-carers-allowance-paid-out-in-error-over-past-six-years-charity-finds