66 h. 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.

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3 d. 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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5 d. 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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6 d. 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.

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8 d. 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

1 week 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.

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2 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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