18 h. ago Exact date unpaid carers can report extra £293 payment missing if money does not arrive today

Thousands of Scots carers will receive the devolved payment by June 19.

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44 h. ago Bathgate and Linlithgow MP pledges to stand up for unpaid carers in Parliament

Kirsteen Sullivan MP attended a Carers Week event in Parliament earlier this month and met with unpaid carers to hear about their experiences of caring and the inequalities they face, how carers can be better identified and recognised, and the support they urgently need.

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3 d. ago Carer’s allowance: woman who won case against DWP calls for end to ‘sickening harassment’

Nicola Green, 42, speaks out after significant legal victory against department that accused her of fraudUK politics live – latest updatesThe mother of a teenager with cerebral palsy has demanded an end to the “sickening harassment” of unpaid carers after a significant legal victory against the government.Nicola Green, 42, was pursued by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) for more than a year after she was accused of fraudulently claiming nearly £3,000 in carer’s allowance. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Extra £293 payment for carers due to land in bank accounts before this weekend

The money will be issued to around 90,000 unpaid carers over a two-day period.

Economics

7 d. ago Who cares for the carers? Shocking pension gap leaves millions behind

As Scotland marks Carers Week, a stark new report reveals just how much unpaid carers are being left behind when it comes to saving for retirement — raising urgent calls for reform to close the growing pension gap.

Economics

1 week ago Thousands of carers in Scotland to get £293 extra payment next week

The money will be issued to around 90,000 unpaid carers over a two-day period.

Economics

2 w. ago Powerful portrait revealed to hail Britain's invisible unpaid carers

To highlight the incredible yet often overlooked contributions carers make to society, a powerfully unfiltered depiction of unpaid carers in the UK has been unveiled.

Politics

2 w. ago Unpaid carers to get exclusive discounts from M&D's to mark National Carers Week

Carers Week runs June 9 to 15. It is estimated that the UK has more than six million unpaid family and friend carers.

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2 w. ago Age Scotland dementia event champions lived experience and inclusion

Age Scotland has marked a significant milestone in its dementia work with a national event in Stirling. Bringing together people living with dementia, unpaid carers, community organisations and professionals to help shape the future of support across Scotland.

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2 w. ago Exact date unpaid carers to receive an extra £293 payment on top of benefit this month

The money will be issued to around 90,000 unpaid carers over a two-day period in June.

Economics

2 w. ago Unpaid UK carers undervalued despite providing care worth £184 billion annually

A new portrait has been unveiled to pay tribute to the unpaid carers in Britain who take an average of three years to realise they are carers at all

Economics

3 w. ago Over £3.1 million paid to carers in West Lothian through new Scottish benefit

This new benefit, which replaces Carer’s Allowance for new applicants in Scotland, is designed to better support unpaid carers.

Economics

3 w. ago ‘Something has gone very wrong’: how the carers scandal was exposed

A Guardian investigation revealed how hundreds of thousands of people were plunged into debt – and some criminalised – for looking after their loved onesOne February afternoon in 2016, Sir Robert Devereux, at the time the most powerful official in the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), was stopped by a junior colleague as he walked through the car park of a civil service office in Preston, Lancashire. Was he aware, the worker asked, about the problems with carer’s allowance?Devereux, on a flying visit to the DWP outpost, asked for details and promised to look into it. A few days later, Devereux’s office received a long and detailed note, complete with 80 anonymised case studies, setting out how years of shortcomings in the administration of the carer’s allowance benefit had wasted millions of pounds of taxpayers’ money and inflicted untold hardship and misery on thousands of unpaid carers. Continue reading...

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