SubtleBlade ⚔️<p>'Ministers are clawing back more than £250m from <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/UnpaidCarers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UnpaidCarers</span></a> over <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/BenefitInfringements" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BenefitInfringements</span></a> that occurred largely as a result of <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/GovernmentFailures" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GovernmentFailures</span></a>'</p><p>'...a successions of ministers have failed to fix the problem, leaving tens of thousands of unpaid carers – who save the UK £160bn a year and help prop up <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/NHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NHS</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/SocialCare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SocialCare</span></a> services – in financial hardship while they repay the debt'<br> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/may/18/ministers-clawing-back-251m-carers-dwp-allowance-failures" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/society/articl</span><span class="invisible">e/2024/may/18/ministers-clawing-back-251m-carers-dwp-allowance-failures</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ToryPoliciesInAction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ToryPoliciesInAction</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ToryFailure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ToryFailure</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ToryInhumanity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ToryInhumanity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Carers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Carers</span></a></p>