Government consider compensation for victims of the admission scandal of supervisors | Supervisor

The government is considering the remuneration for unpaid nursing staff who have been wrongly made in recent years with enormous financial repayments after accidentally making the rules for Hard Calers foul’s admission money.

minister Schwor to fix problems With the benefit after A guardian examination Unprinted how draconian punishments in connection with the administrative failure for work and pensions (DWP) from Department of Labor and Pensions (DWP) had overthrew hundreds of thousands of nurses in debts.

More than 144,000 caregivers currently pay 251 million GBP of performance overpayments, which is usually 5,000 GBP, but can be up to 20,000 GBP. Some look for life -changing bills after they accidentally violated the winning rules for a few pence per week.

The guardian reporting The DWP often brutal treatment Public outrage caused by caregivers who were accidentally recorded by the yield rules of Carer’s Accomesanced. Compare with the post office scandal.

The government should quickly move to overtake what they see as a legacy of more than a decade of conservative government neglect, in which problems with the overpayment of care have been repeatedly ignored or overhauled or in which problems with the care of care have been repeated or ignored or ignored covered up.

At the center of the scandal is the so -called “Cliff Edge” -Freeli, which punishes the supervisors in part -time jobs by force them to repay the entire benefit if they violate the profit limits through even tiny amounts. A supervisor who earned 50p more than the current weekly threshold for 52 weeks would not repay £ 26, but £ 4,258.80.

The problem was used by the routine failure of the DWP to check all monthly HMRC notifications that mark potential profit violations, so that the supervisors accidentally enable massive overpayments over the years. Until recently, the DWP directive was to check only half of the profits it received.

The nurses often did not notice that they had violated the rules, since the thresholds did not automatically match the national minimum wage or because vacation wages and unique performance bonuses were counted as weekly income.

In the dream of the new Minister of Social Affairs Pat McFadden, who replaced Liz Kendall, the reform of the Carer registration reform in one thing in the dream of the scandal will be high. The benefits symbolize some of the worst excesses of the bureaucratic cruelty of DWP.

However, the costs and the complexity of such a step would be an impressive challenge. It would also raise questions about the hundreds of nurses who, after the conviction for fraud, after referring to the courts after they were referred to the courts.

The reparation for nurses who increased debts due to DWP deficiencies would be a major change in the official attitudes. The previous government generally refused to assume any responsibility for the injustices of caregivers and insisted that overpayments were legally the fault of the supervisors themselves.

The ministers consider an independent report on how the overpayment scandal has occurred and how future problems can prevent. Created by the Expert of Disability Policy Liz Sayce, it was handed over to the ministers at the end of July.

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The Sayce report is expected to be published together with a plan for revising the benefit in the next few months. Minister have already taken steps to reduce overpayments by hire more employees To check the profit warnings, test a text system to warn caregivers of profit violations, and increase The supervisor’s weekly profit threshold.

More than 5 million people in Great Britain offer unpaid care for frail, sick or disabled relatives. Around 1.4 million who spend over 35 hours a week for care claim the weekly of £ 83.30. Almost half of the unpaid supervisors, most of whom are women, live in poverty.

The liberal democratic chairman Ed Davey, a long -time activist for nursing staff, said: “I really hope that the government will give the victims this horrific scandal the compensation that they earn. It would be a milestone for supervisors across the country and a victory for everyone who has tirelessly used justice.

“The government not only has a chance to compensate the victims, but also to revise the supervisor’s allowance so that it supports the supervisors properly and does not punish them for the work. We will continue to urge the ministers to take this opportunity.”

Helen Walker, the managing director of Carers UK, said: “Far too many nurses are currently paying debts that the government should have told them much earlier, or they should have had primarily.