If you read one thing today, please make it this devastating piece by Simon Hattenstone on the terrible, terrible cost still inflicted by the IPP sentence…

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Two MPs raised the Carer’s Allowance scandal in PMQs today - three weeks after The Guardian began documenting stories of unpaid carers prosecuted by the DWP.

Also today: ⁦Carers UK⁩ say they’re “deeply disappointed” after minister rules out a review: theguardian.com/society/2024/a…

My bit from Birkenhead, a community in mourning for their beloved former MP, Frank Field

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Carer's allowance scandal latest: Government dementia adviser quits over the DWPs treatment of unpaid carers, describing the prosecutions of vulnerable people as “beyond the pale”. theguardian.com/society/2024/a… via Josh Halliday

🚨NEW: Rishi Sunak dementia adviser resigns over treatment of unpaid carers, saying DWP’s approach is “beyond the pale” theguardian.com/society/2024/a…

MPs call for carer’s allowance review as numbers overpaid soars - by ⁦Patrick Butler⁩ theguardian.com/society/2024/a…

Two years ago Waterstones Manchester Deansgate. I'll be back there on May 23rd 6.30pm to launch 'Made in Manchester: A People's History of the City that Shaped the Modern World'. Tickets for the event here: waterstones.com/events/in-conv…

Carers and Young Carers save the taxpayer billlions in caring for their loved ones. Yet so often the systems of the state make their life so much harder. We need to support these remarkable people!
Thanks ⁦Josh Halliday⁩ for shining a light on this theguardian.com/society/2024/a…

One in three #UnpaidCarers already contemplate suicide.

DWP's relentless pursuit of those who've mistakenly claimed #CarersAllowance will only make things worse.

Me in The Guardian, with thanks to Josh Halliday for covering this complex issue.

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MPs on the Commons work and pensions committee will question the DWP minister, Mims Davies, next Wednesday about the Carer's Allowance scandal.

Live from about 10.25am. Watch here: parliamentlive.tv/Committees

Prime Minister doing his 'fit notes' speech at the Centre for Social Justice, which has castigated his government's handling of Carer's Allowance as a 'scandalous miscarriage of justice'.

Please someone ask him about that.

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'Lives are turned upside down by a government department whose monolithic power to prosecute and punish appears untempered by any sense of proportionality, fairness or compassion.'

.@[email protected] on the Carer's Allowance scandal.

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Good old fashioned journalism by The Guardian means Department for Work and Pensions will look at this case with some urgency. Perhaps, it should have listened more carefully to charities who have been warning about these injustices with the benefits system for years?
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🫂Latest on carer's allowance: how Davina Ware was forced to pay back nearly £4,000 after calculating her earnings as a monthly income, as she believed the DWP required, rather than a four-weekly cycle.

Ware's husband has had Parkinson's for 20 years.

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