Allowance

Healthy adults under the age of 75 are unlikely to benefit from taking more than the daily intake of vitamin…

The Conservatives have promised to raise the tax-free pension allowance via a “Triple Lock Plus” if they win the general…

Unpaid carers must repay more than £250 million after many were unknowingly overpaid their allowance, new figures show. The government…

Ministers are clawing back more than £250m from unpaid carers over benefit infringements that occurred largely as a result of…

There are plenty of reasons why welfare ministers were reluctant to publish the study they commissioned into unpaid carers’ experiences…

Ministers were warned three years ago that unpaid carers were being treated unfairly and forced to repay huge sums for…

Ministers have been told to “immediately” fix the issues causing tens of thousands of unpaid carers to incur “enormous accidental…

Almost exactly five years ago, Enrico La Rocca was hailed by MPs as a hero, a whistleblower whose tenacity had…

MPs have called for a full-scale review of carer’s allowance and an end to harsh benefit rules that have resulted…

Karina Moon vividly recalls the telephone call that brought her to tears. She was stood, frozen, in the living room…