‘Avalanche of utter stress’: carers’ health suffering as DWP claws back benefits

Dozens of people caring for frail, sick or elderly relatives describe devastating' effect of DWP's approach to honest mistakes'

Carers have described suffering an avalanche of utter stress" due to the government's abhorrent" approach to clawing back benefits, as official figures revealed the widespread ill health of those caring for loved ones.

The Department for Work and Pensions has been under fire since the Guardian revealed that tens of thousands of unpaid carers are being forced to pay back huge sums - and in some cases prosecuted for fraud - over honest mistakes" that it could have spotted years earlier.