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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Josh Halliday and Patrick Butler

Work and pensions committee chair tells ministers to fix carer’s allowance issues

Stephen Timms said he was ‘very troubled’ that carers were being forced into financial distress as a result of the government’s mistakes.
Stephen Timms said he was ‘very troubled’ that carers were being forced into financial distress as a result of the government’s mistakes. Photograph: Westend61/Getty Images

Ministers have been told to “immediately” fix the issues causing tens of thousands of unpaid carers to incur “enormous accidental overpayments” amid growing anger over the carer’s allowance scandal.

Stephen Timms, the chair of an influential parliamentary committee, said he was “very troubled” that scores of carers were being forced into financial distress as a result of the government’s mistakes.

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