• Head of carer’s allowance inquiry blames DWP ‘resistance’ for failure to fix crisis

    Liz Sayce tells MPs some civil servants tried to minimise extent of problems and deflect blameThe head of an official inquiry into carer’s allowance has criticised “forces of resistance” inside the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) that undermined ministerial attempts to fix longstanding problems with the much-criticised benefit.Liz Sayce, whose review of carer’s allowance was published in November, said rather than owning the problems, some at the DWP had tried to &

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