#1: Carer's Allowance Overpayments. The Guardian's Patrick Butler and Josh Halliday, along with Carers UK, expose the ‘enraging and heartbreaking’ scandal.
Well that really gets my blood boiling! I love how a 'system' can make a mistake and a human who had nothing to do with that mistake must pay for it.
The 'if you make this much' logic holds here in the US for some things as well. I know a young woman who has a daughter with cystic fibrosis. Her medications every month run into the thousands of dollars. The mother went to school and got a nursing degree, however, when she started working, she learned that she couldn't continue to receive the medical benefit that was helping them pay for her medications. She had to quit her nursing job and start an in-home daycare so that they could still receive help paying for the meds because her job wasn't making up the difference in their being able to pay on their own, but was making the difference in the benefit, or lack there of, that they were receiving.
As a society in general, we don't take care of those who need us most and it's sickening...
Thanks for sharing in the anger of all this with me, Kirbie!
I'm so sorry to hear about your friend that's awful. I know we're very blessed in the UK that drug treatments are free on the NHS.
Given the evidence, studies, and what I've put together, I wonder how 'work' will evolve in the UK, as I can see that many people, including children, are filling the social care gaps.
oh my goodness this is horrifying. As if honest caregivers don't have enough to juggle without having to worry about persecution from the government over a pittance of a clerical error?!
Exactly, Kerri! It's heartbreaking to listen to carers' experiences.
I've tried hard to write the facts without embellishment or judgment here - the impact is intense and cruel.
Carers have been honest, clearly communicating and or sought clarification from the DWP if they had a change in circumstances. Still, the updates/information weren't passed on or efficiently managed within the department.
Well that really gets my blood boiling! I love how a 'system' can make a mistake and a human who had nothing to do with that mistake must pay for it.
The 'if you make this much' logic holds here in the US for some things as well. I know a young woman who has a daughter with cystic fibrosis. Her medications every month run into the thousands of dollars. The mother went to school and got a nursing degree, however, when she started working, she learned that she couldn't continue to receive the medical benefit that was helping them pay for her medications. She had to quit her nursing job and start an in-home daycare so that they could still receive help paying for the meds because her job wasn't making up the difference in their being able to pay on their own, but was making the difference in the benefit, or lack there of, that they were receiving.
As a society in general, we don't take care of those who need us most and it's sickening...
Thanks for sharing in the anger of all this with me, Kirbie!
I'm so sorry to hear about your friend that's awful. I know we're very blessed in the UK that drug treatments are free on the NHS.
Given the evidence, studies, and what I've put together, I wonder how 'work' will evolve in the UK, as I can see that many people, including children, are filling the social care gaps.
oh my goodness this is horrifying. As if honest caregivers don't have enough to juggle without having to worry about persecution from the government over a pittance of a clerical error?!
Exactly, Kerri! It's heartbreaking to listen to carers' experiences.
I've tried hard to write the facts without embellishment or judgment here - the impact is intense and cruel.
Carers have been honest, clearly communicating and or sought clarification from the DWP if they had a change in circumstances. Still, the updates/information weren't passed on or efficiently managed within the department.