Scores of Carers Overpaid More Than £20,000 Last Year Despite Reforms Scores of unpaid carers were hit with demands to repay sums exceeding £20,000 last year, while hundreds more faced the risk of prosecution due to failures in the carer's allowance system.
The figures show 32,559 overpayments totaling £33 million repaid to carers in one year.
The scale of this issue is not just a matter of bureaucratic inefficiency; it reveals deeper problems within the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).