The Carer Poverty Coalition has written to the Government ahead of the Autumn Budget, calling for urgent action to resolve the ongoing issue of Carer’s Allowance overpayments. 

The letter calls on the Government to use the Autumn Budget to provide the necessary investment to deliver three key outcomes of the Independent Review of Carer's Allowance overpayments, which is due to be published by the end of the year. 

These outcomes are:

• New policies and processes must be put in place to ensure that there is accurate, transparent, and clear information so that carers can make informed decisions about workings and earnings.
• Internal DWP processes need to be changed to ensure that carers do not incur overpayments as a result of poor practice.
• Carers’ overpayment debts must be written off, where carers received overpayments through no fault of their own, or due to systematic failures by the DWP.

You can read the full letter here.