Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 47497

Carer's Allowance: Overpayments

Tabled: 23 April 2025

Answered: 7 May 2025

Question

Sarah Gibson

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department has made an assessment of the the potential merits of writing off historical Carer’s Allowance overpayments in cases involving small or inadvertent breaches of the earnings limit.

Answer

Andrew Western

The Government inherited a system where busy carers, already struggling under a huge weight of responsibility, have been left having to repay large sums of overpaid Carer’s Allowance (CA) – sometimes worth thousands of pounds. We needed to understand exac...

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