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More than 150,000 unpaid carers are repaying often huge debts after the government failed to tackle its IT problems
A cross-party committee of MPs has urged the government to overhaul the meagre weekly benefit for unpaid carers and fix “without delay” the issues causing thousands to rack up enormous debts.
Mel Stride, the work and pensions secretary, was told that the government had failed for five years to tackle the IT problems that have left tens of thousands of unpaid carers owing sums that had plunged many into debt and left some facing criminal prosecution.
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