Carer’s Allowance overpayments
National charity Carers UK have launched a new petition calling on the Government to review and reform Carer’s Allowance, to increase the financial support available to Carers and to urgently reduce overpayments.
We need your help to ensure we get as many signatures for the petition as possible. Please do share the petition widely. If we get to 10,000 signatures there is a good chance we will be able to secure another parliamentary debate on the issue before the General Election. You can sign the petition using the link below:
Carer’s Allowance overpayments
To ensure there is a body of evidence needed to argue for changes to be urgently made by the Government, Carers UK are asking Carers to share their experiences of dealing with Carer’s Allowance overpayments, so that a dossier of Carers’ experiences can be put together.
If you have experienced a Carer’s Allowance overpayment and would be happy to share your story with us, we would be very grateful if you could complete the short survey that Carers UK has launched by clicking the link below.
Once Carers UK have this evidence, they will anonymise it before sharing it with the Government and other senior parliamentarians – to demonstrate the devastating impact overpayments can have on Carers’ lives.