An influential MPs’ committee has urged welfare bosses to speed up redress for tens of thousands of unpaid carers who stand to have huge benefit debts written off after they were wrongly hit with carer’s allowance penalties.
The public accounts committee (PAC) said management failures and “systemic issues” at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) had led to carers being incorrectly forced to repay overpayments running into thousands of pounds.
The committee said a “lack of integrated, concerted leadership” allowed carer’s all
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