household debt

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DWP taking cash back from benefit claimants it overpaid is ‘just like carer’s allowance scandal’

Across the UK, around 1.1 million people owe money to the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) due to benefit overpayments.

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‘You go into denial. It’s so much that your brain just switches. I just kept putting the pieces of paper into a box and hoping it’d go away’

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So-called ‘Awful April’ is upon us, writes Richard Lane of StepChange Debt Charity

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