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  • UK carers may be racking up debt without knowing due to ‘cliff edge’

    Nearly 140,000 carers owe more than £250m for overpayment of a key benefit they receive, with a watchdog warning many may be racking up debt without knowing. The National Audit Office, the public spending watchdog, said the number who owe carer’s allowance overpayment debt had risen every year since 2018, and was up by almost…

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  • A 46-year-old woman who pleaded guilty to stealing more than €45,000 from an elderly woman with dementia for whom she was acting as a carer has been jailed for two and a half years. Catherine Gregg of The Cottage, Ballinaclashet, Belgooly, Co Cork previously pleaded guilty to 17 different theft charges. Ms Gregg left just…

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