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Public accounts committee says ‘systemic issues’ at DWP led to carers being wrongly forced to repay overpayments

An influential MPs’ committee has urged welfare bosses to speed up redress for tens of thousands of unpaid carers who stand to have huge benefit debts written off after they were wrongly hit with carer’s allowance penalties.

The public accounts committee (PAC) said management failures and “systemic issues” at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) had led to carers being incorrectly forced to repay overpayments running into thousands of pounds.

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Source: The Guardian

Climate teams pledge to eliminate rollback of 2009 searching for figuring out CO₂ and various other greenhouse gases harm health and wellness

In what is readied to be its most audacious anti-environment action yet, the Trump administration on Thursday will curtail the system allowing the federal government to manage planet-heating contamination, the White House press assistant has informed press reporters.

” President Trump will be signed up with by EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin to formalize the recession of the 2009 Obama-era endangerment finding,” Karoline Leavitt claimed at an interview on Tuesday. “This will be the biggest deregulatory action in American background.”

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Source: The Guardian