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Carers can earn more without losing their allowance
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Carers can earn more without losing their allowance

Here’s a welcome change for unpaid carers: the government plans to abolish the harsh earnings rule for Carer’s Allowance in the budget. Under a new digital taper, the allowance will fall by £1 for each additional £1 earned above the weekly limit, instead of being stopped altogether. The old rule left carers facing debts of thousands of pounds for going just pennies over the limit, with some unaware they had breached it for years. The reform follows a Guardian investigation that helped expose the scale of the hardship and prompted an independent review.
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