Many carers hit with demands to repay more than £20,000 despite reforms

Tens of thousands of unpaid carers across the UK faced repayment demands in the past year despite reforms meant to prevent it, The Guardian reports. New figures show thirty-two thousand five hundred fifty-nine overpayment cases totaling thirty-three million pounds, with some carers ordered to repay more than twenty thousand pounds each. Hundreds more risked prosecution. Though measures were introduced more than a year ago to end the carer's allowance scandal, problems persist.

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