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Liz Sayce tells MPs some civil servants tried to minimise extent of problems and deflect blameThe head of an official inquiry into carer’s allowance has criticised “forces of resistance” inside the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) that undermined…
Charities hail ‘groundbreaking’ scheme for grandparents and others who take full parental responsibility for a childGrandparents who step in to provide full-time care for their grandchildren to prevent them being taken into care will be given guarantee…
Peter Schofield tells staff he will leave the department for personal reasonsThe government’s top welfare official is to step down after his department’s handling of a longstanding benefits failure that plunged thousands into debt and became known as t…
Resolution Foundation finds one in three carers from poorer families unable to work because of responsibilitiesA growing “unsung army” of 1 million people with full-time caring responsibilities needs better support, according to a report that found one…
Commons committee chair says DWP repeatedly failed to prioritise the vulnerable and was slow to fix errorsThe government’s most senior welfare official has been accused of presiding over a “culture of complacency” that led to thousands of unpaid carers…
Liz Sayce, who led inquiry into department’s failures, ‘distressed’ at carers being blamed for running up huge overpaymentsThe Department of Work and Pensions needs a management and cultural overhaul if it is to restore public trust after the benefits …
Neil Couling said failings by individual claimants ‘at the heart’ of crisis, despite a report finding DWP shortcomings ‘unacceptable’ One of the most senior civil servants in the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has placed the blame for the carer…
Most of money earmarked to fix ‘systemic’ problems expected to pay for officials needed to reassess overpaymentsMinisters have set aside £75m to fix systemic failures that caused hundreds of thousands of unpaid carers to be hit with huge bills after un…
Unpaid carers were pushed into debt and distress and hundreds of millions of taxpayers’ money wastedUK politics live – latest updatesRepeated failures by Tory ministers and top welfare officials pushed hundreds of thousands of unpaid carers into debt a…
Damning official review finds many unpaid carers left with huge debt because of government failure‘It’s like the Post Office scandal’: victims of carer’s allowance crisis speak outThe carer’s allowance scandal – a timelineHundreds of thousands of vulne…