The carer’s allowance scandal – a timeline

Ten years of bureaucratic failure, whistleblowing, political neglect and groundhog day-style policy inertia

• DWP to reassess hundreds of thousands of cases in carer's allowance scandal

• It's like the Post Office scandal': victims of carer's allowance crisis speak out

Ministers have announced a major review of the penalties imposed on hundreds of thousands of unpaid carers after a damning independent investigation of the carer's allowance scandal.

The inquiry by Liz Sayce was launched after the Guardian revealed how a catalogue of failures at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) had left scores of vulnerable families with huge debts and hundreds with criminal convictions for fraud.