The Guardian view of unpaid care providers: The scandal of their suits is far from more than | Editorial
R.The Ministry of Labor and Pensioners ’Advertising (DWP) for a new system to verify violations of the provider’s allocations is a milestone in the campaign to end the weak treatment of the demands. The rules that the officials direct to investigating only half of the alerts about the extraordinary payments are truly disposed of. In the future, all reports will be examined, so that the claimants can be notified and avoided entering debt.
Lifting the weekly profits for this month, from 151 to 196 pounds, is another step forward. The demands can now work for the equivalent of 16 hours in the national living fee (NLW) without losing their right to pay the care provider of 83.30 pounds. By linking the profit limit to NLW, so that they rise in the future, the ministers made it unlikely that the height of wages unintentionally raises the edge and in a problem. A governmental review by Liz Sayes, a deficit expert, will make other recommendations, including what should happen for distinguished debts that raise the life of importance.
The ministers already know a lot about the damage caused by years of official denial and confusion. Nearly a decade ago, DWP has first concerned with concerns about the way those who have received the mixture were dealt with. He was fired wrongly, then returned, but the debts and trials continued. Currently, 144,000 claims are in the process of paying a total of 250 million pounds. The guardian’s investigation last year revealed how hundreds of hundreds of extra payments (more than 5,000 pounds) to the court were transferred to the court, accusing fraud.
This terrible condition should not be allowed. It is a stigma on the record of the last government that has not been done to sort it. Since 2019, the National Auditing Office has found that most of the illicit claims were the result of errors. In light of this, DWP should have been proactive in its treatment, instead of insisting that the plaintiffs bear legal responsibility, or put his belief in technological reform that has never been achieved.
Many million people receive instead of the care provider actually deal with very difficult circumstances, financially and in other ways. In order to be qualified in the first place, the person who is taken care of (almost near) must be on disability benefits, and he needs at least 35 hours a week of assistance in tasks such as washing. Given that being outside the work is The most powerful indicator of poverty For unpaid care providers, it was completely necessary to punish them for weekly profits exceeding 151 pounds – until last week coherent.
Unpaid care providers, many of whom are middle -aged women, are not an increasingly and unhealthy demographic challenge in aging and unhealthy. The new financing formula for the official social welfare sector is necessary, and it cannot be postponed for a longer period. But care, in its broader sense, will always include the assistance that is voluntarily provided – as well as those that are paid for. Care is what is going on in families, as well as what care workers and institutional places offer.
These ties between individuals and generations are part of the fabric of society. In addition to the injustice it revealed, the welfare instead scandal revolves around the low low pace in a painful way that the DWP seems to keep.
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