• Nurses’ families fear being torn apart in UK immigration crackdown, survey says

    Exclusive: Most people in charity’s study say they worry about being separated from relatives under Mahmood plansFamilies of nurses and carers have said they fear being torn apart under an immigration crackdown condemned as “an act of economic vandalism”.A survey of more than 1,000 people, many of whom moved to Britain to work or study, found that three in five worry about being separated from their relatives. Continue reading...
  • MPs call on welfare bosses to speed up redress over carer’s allowance scandal

    Public accounts committee says ‘systemic issues’ at DWP led to carers being wrongly forced to repay overpaymentsAn influential MPs’ committee has urged welfare bosses to speed up redress for tens of thousands of unpaid carers who stand to have huge benefit debts written off after they were wrongly hit with carer’s allowance penalties.The public accounts committee (PAC) said management failures and “systemic issues” at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)

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