AutisticMumTo3 She/Her or They/ThemDec 26, 2024
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All we want for Christmas is f...
All we want for Christmas is for unpaid carers to be properly supported by the DWP and councils

Ruth Hannan and Hannah Webster, co-founders of Care Full, write about the reality of being unpaid carers without enough financial support.

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VanessaDec 26, 2024

Unpaid carers must be supported by the DWP and councils
bigissue.com/opinion/unpaid-ca…

#DWP
#Overpayment
#Work
#CarersAllowance
#UnpaidCarers
#FamilyCarers
#Carers

All we want for Christmas is for unpaid carers to be properly supported by the DWP and councils

Ruth Hannan and Hannah Webster, co-founders of Care Full, write about the reality of being unpaid carers without enough financial support.

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AutisticMumTo3Dec 26, 2024

Unpaid carers must be supported by the DWP and councils
https://www.bigissue.com/opinion/unpaid-carers-support-dwp-councils-care-full/

#DWP
#Overpayment
#Work
#CarersAllowance
#UnpaidCarers
#FamilyCarers
#Carers

All we want for Christmas is for unpaid carers to be properly supported by the DWP and councils

Ruth Hannan and Hannah Webster, co-founders of Care Full, write about the reality of being unpaid carers without enough financial support.

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AutisticMumTo3Sep 4, 2024

Woman, 86, told she no longer has to repay £13,000 in benefits in DWP U-turn | Benefits | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/sep/04/woman-no-longer-repay-benefits-dwp-u-turn-carers-sia-kasparis

#GuardianInvestigation
#Dementia
#UnpaidCarers
#FamilyCarers
#CarersAllowance
#PensionCredit
#SevereDisabilityPremium
#DWP
#Kendall

Woman, 86, told she no longer has to repay £13,000 in benefits in DWP U-turn

Exclusive: Case of Sia Kasparis, who has dementia, had been highlighted in Guardian investigation into unpaid care

The Guardian
AutisticMumTo3Sep 3, 2024

Northern women forced to provide £10bn in unpaid care a year due to hole in NHS provision | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/unpaid-care-northern-women-more-b2605758.html

#NHS
#NHSCrisis
#Carers
#UnpaidCarers
#FamilyCarers
#HealthEquityNorth
#InformalCare
#Disabled
#LongTermSick
#ChronicallyIll
#NHSServices
#NorthernEngland
#Women
#BenefitCuts
#PublicHealthFunding
#Funding
#NorthSouthDivide

Northern women forced to provide £10bn in unpaid care a year due to hole in NHS provision

Researchers warn of ‘perfect storm’ leaving northern women worse off than counrterparts in rest of country ‘across almost every metric’

The Independent
AutisticMumTo3Aug 20, 2024

Unpaid carer says DWP’s fraud prosecution threat was ‘like blackmail’ | Carers | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/aug/19/unpaid-carer-dwp-prosecution-threat-like-blackmail

#DWP
#Fraud
#WronglyAccused
#WrongfullyAccused
#CPS
#AccidentalBreachOfEarningsRules
#CarersAllowance
#Carers
#UnpaidCarers
#FamilyCarers
#FinancialHardship
#WeCareCampaign
#DWPLettingTheOverpaymentBuildUp
#Court

Unpaid carer says DWP’s fraud prosecution threat was ‘like blackmail’

Clemency Jacques told to pay extra £1,300 for accidental carer’s allowance breach or have case sent to CPS

The Guardian
AutisticMumTo3Aug 15, 2024

What pushes unpaid carers into poverty? - Understanding Society
https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/news/2024/08/07/what-pushes-unpaid-carers-into-poverty/

#Carers
#UnpaidCarers
#FamilyCarers
#Poverty
#JosephRowntreeFoundation
#JRF
#PaidWork
#ReductionInHouseholdEarnings
#Benefits

What pushes unpaid carers into poverty? - Understanding Society

A new report from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation looks at the dynamics of poverty for people providing unpaid care. A new report from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation looks at the dynamics of poverty for people providing unpaid care.

Understanding Society
AutisticMumTo3Aug 13, 2024

The shrunken state expects families to fill the voids in health and social care. Woe betide those without children | Gaby Hinsliff | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/aug/09/families-health-social-care-children-hospital

#FamilyCarers
#UnpaidCarers
#Carers
#SocialCare
#Health
#AgeingParents
#Elderly
#CutsToServices
#FundingCuts

The shrunken state expects families to fill the voids in health and social care. Woe betide those without children

As fewer Britons have children, more will be left to navigate our threadbare social care system and overstretched hospitals alone, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

The Guardian
AutisticMumTo3May 18, 2024

Carer’s allowance report a vivid insight into failings of an unfit system | Carers | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/may/16/carers-allowance-report-a-vivid-insight-into-failings-of-an-unfit-system

#Carers
#UnpaidCarers
#FamilyCarers
#CarersAllowance
#DWP
#WorkingCarers
#Insensitive
#ForcedOutOfWork

Carer’s allowance report a vivid insight into failings of an unfit system

Little wonder welfare ministers were so reluctant the publish the study they commissioned five years ago

The Guardian
AutisticMumTo3May 14, 2024

DWP: unpaid carers are unsung heros.
BBC Newsnight

Yeah right. They think carers & those they carer for should just drop dead.

#BBC
#Newsnight
#BBCNewsnight
#Carers
#UnpaidCarers
#FamilyCarers
#DWP