Carer’s Allowance Nightmare: Woman Forced to Repay £4,000 After Honest Mistake
Bath, United Kingdom – Davina Ware recounts the anguish she feels over her experience with the carer’s allowance, a modest weekly benefit meant for those revered by the government as Britain’s “unsung heroes.” Her voice trembles with pain as she describes feeling “humiliated,” “devastated,” and “treated like a conniving thief” by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). Ware received a demand to repay nearly £4,000 just three months before her retirement, stemming from a …