Chair comments on NAO report

Chair's comments

“Once again, the NAO has devastatingly laid bare the incompetence at DWP, and its stark human cost. Not for the first time, we see DWP squeezing those least able to afford it. It will chase down carers who provide such an immense service to our society, potentially cutting their income for decades – when it knows that a large part of the responsibility lies squarely at its own door. Worse still, the NAO shows that DWP hasn't bothered to find out what clawing back these sums will cost carers and the people they care for, in every sense.
 
“There was already plenty wrong with the way we recognise carers' invaluable contribution. Rather than making things worse, why doesn't the Department just spare us all: end this massive scandal, focus on the real fraudsters and write off the overpayments it has allowed to build up unchecked.”

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