More than 34,000 people were overpaid by the DWP last year
The Department for Work and Pensions is coming under increasing pressure to launch a review of the way it handles Carer's Allowance, after it emerged that thousands of people who care for others are regularly being overpaid - and then months or years later receiving demands for repayment.
Despite the DWP having a back-end system to check payments against earnings, new figures have now revealed that there are an estimated 34,500 people who overpaid the benefit last year - up from 30,700 the year before - with more than 1,000 of them asked to pay back sums of between £5,000 and £20,000, according to the Guardian.
He said: "The fact that we have made absolutely no progress at all on social care we really did not support carers adequately during the pandemic. But this latest thing – the approach the DWP are taking to reclaim benefits from carers and people with disabilities, particularly with neurological disabilities – is beyond the pale for me really.”
Former Tory work and pensions secretary Ian Duncan Smith is among those urging the DWP to "pause" the overpayment claim process and "very carefully" review the issue. The former Tory leader told the Guardian: "The best thing is for the DWP now to pause any of these demands, review carefully what was behind all of this to make sure this was not mistakes by DWP but is genuinely about individuals failing to notify the department.
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