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Good Law Project - help needed with possible carers allowance overpayment legal action

Ken Butler
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Disability Rights UK

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Bekah Sparrow Legal Manager at the Good Law Project has asked us to post the following -
“Hello,
Have you had a client who has been affected by the carer’s allowance scandal?

Good Law Project is a non-profit that uses the law to build a fairer future. We think the government may be acting unlawfully in the way that it is clawing back money from carers.
We would like to find examples of how the Department for Work and Pensions has tried to reclaim overpayments to help us build a legal case.

We’d love to hear from you if you have had a client who has been overpaid since 2018/in the past four years.

We are particularly keen to hear from people who have received any of these in the last two months:
• a decision that an overpayment has been made (and that it will be recovered);
• a decision on a mandatory reconsideration of an overpayment decision;
• a decision on appeal against an overpayment decision in the First Tier Tribunal.

You can contact us via our online form here: https://goodlawproject.org/about/contact/.
We won’t share your details or personal data with anyone without your /their permission.
Many thanks,
Bekah, Legal Manager
Good Law Project”