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#carers

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Juggling With Eggs

‘The carer’s allowance scandal – because of which 144,000 carers are repaying more than £251m – continues to claim victims and will do so for the immediate future as the DWP works its way through thousands of backlogged overpayments.’

“In any sort of ethical world, this would not happen.”

The #DWP ignored whistleblowers and continued to fine and prosecute #carers.

theguardian.com/news/ng-intera

The Guardian · ‘Something has gone very wrong’: how the carers scandal was exposedBy Patrick Butler
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Emeritus Prof Christopher May

Overpayments of carer's allowance (paid over months) that the DWP tries to claw back as lump sums, seem to have been running at over £50m a year for the last six years & its largely the DWP's fault for letting overpayments continue for too long even when they'd been notified that payments should have been stopped.

As always its a tale of badly used technology & staff cuts, but carers lives have been made miserable because the DWP couldn't do its job properly!

#carers
theguardian.com/society/2025/m

The Guardian · At least £357m in carer’s allowance paid out in error over past six years, charity findsBy Patrick Butler
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Matteo Cesari

Concerns about the approval of #lecanemab for Alzheimer’s disease

"...We are concerned about the approval of this #drug with uncertain net benefit that might foster false hope and expectations among people with #Alzheimer’s disease and their #carers and which might further overburden already overstretched #healthcare systems in Europe..."

#Medicine #Health #Geriatrics #Neurology #Care #MedMastodon

bmj.com/content/389/bmj.r778

The BMJ · Concerns about the approval of lecanemab for Alzheimer’s diseaseThe European Medicines Agency (EMA), after initial rejection based on an unfavourable risk-benefit balance, recently recommended approval of lecanemab for treating people with mild cognitive impairment and early dementia because of Alzheimer’s disease.1 This approval raises serious concerns for four reasons. Firstly, the reported difference between intervention and placebo in the primary outcome, the clinical dementia rating scale-sum of boxes (CDR-SB), was small (0.45 points) in a mixed group with mild cognitive impairment and …
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Emeritus Prof Christopher May

So the DWP have been at it again, stopping carers' allowance earlier than mandated when a serious ill child was in hospital for just over two weeks.

Indeed, the fact that all payments are intended to halt after a month of hospitalisation on the grounds the carers' role has been taken up by the NHS also flies in the face of what we know about the overstretched NHS.

Its time to take unpaid carers' role seriously & stop sh*tting on them from above!

#carers #politics
theguardian.com/society/2025/f

The Guardian · Mother had carer’s allowance stopped while with disabled daughter in hospitalBy Josh Halliday
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Centre for Population Change

CPC-CG Director Professor Jane Falkingham CBE will speak about 'The new rush hour of life: Balancing paid and unpaid work in mid-life?' for the Sir Roger Jowell Memorial Lecture 2025 - hosted by City, University of London, the National Centre for Social Research, and The Social Research Association.

Full details and registration: city.ac.uk/news-and-events/eve

#socialsciences#demography#carers
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NSW.Biodiversity

Provide habitat and fund wildlife hospitals!

"The WA Wildlife Hospital has seen a 17 per cent year-on-year increase in patient admissions over the past 15 years."
Reasons?
"These include increasing urban sprawl, with suburbs encroaching on natural habitats as the population grows, and attacks from introduced predators such as wandering cats, foxes and dogs."
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abc.net.au/news/2025-02-20/wa-
#Biodiversity #wildlife #birds #carers #sprawl #FishingHooks #roads #drivers #IntroducedSpecies #pets #dogs #ExtinctionCrisis #SettlerSociety

ABC News · Record admissions to WA Wildlife Hospital trigger fears it may have to send animals elsewhereBy ABC News
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Emeritus Prof Christopher May

Excellent news:

'Andrea Tucker has overturned the demand for £4,600 in carer’s allowance overpayments for alleged breaches in benefit rules'.

Tucker's tribunal case vindicates her claim the DWP misled her & abused her through a miscalculation of her working hours, which triggered a demand for a repayment of carers' allowance.

Now, the DWP needs to be brought under control & its abuse of unpaid carers halted...

#DWP #carers
theguardian.com/society/2025/f

The Guardian · Unpaid carer wins overpayment penalty case against DWPBy Patrick Butler
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