I was forced to repay DWP £1,600 – I’m worried by crackdown | Personal Finance | Finance
A plan to seize money from people’s bank accounts in a benefit fraud crackdown risks repeating the scandal of carers being unfairly targeted for repayments, it is claimed.
One carer who was forced to repay £1,600 to the DWP for infringing the rules while looking after her husband has said she was ‘made to feel like a criminal’.
It is understood that the Government plans to give welfare investigators the power to take money from both bank accounts and payslips in its forthcoming fraud…
