Unpaid carers have welcomed plans to launch a review of “outdated” benefit rules that have left tens of thousands of people who look after loved ones with huge debts and threatened with prosecution, and triggered a scandal.
However, they said a much wider review was needed to reform the “unfit for purpose” system of carer benefits, and some urged ministers to write off £250m of existing overpayments owed by claimants who have been unwittingly caught by carer’s allowance rules.
