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Today, DWP have taken 11% of my pay without consultation or means testing. If I include my other deductions, Tax, National Insurance, Pension and Student Loan I’ve just lost 31% of my pay, 38.84% if including Council Tax. Then pretty much 20% on all purchases in the form of VAT, meanwhile the cost-of-living crisis continues to spiral out of control. To recap, DWP are taking £6,376 from me for an alleged overpayment of Carers Allowance between 2009-2014 despite there being a regulation known as offsetting which allows a deduction from any recoverable overpayment calculated equal to any amount of additional income related benefit, which would have been paid had the correct facts been known. An extremely complicated case with lots of mitigating circumstances boils down to a very simple point. My grandmother and I should have claimed Attendants Allowance (Severe Disability Premium) instead of Carers Allowance. At the time the difference between these two benefits was less than £0.
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