<p>Controversial mechanism that hit unpaid carers with huge penalties to be scrapped following Guardian investigation</p><p>The controversial rule that led to unpaid carers being punished with penalties amounting to thousands of pounds is to be abolished, the Guardian can reveal.</p><p>The chancellor, John Healey, is to announce a new digital taper system for the so-called carer’s allowance in Wednesday’s budget, effectively ending what is regarded as one of the UK benefit system’s most feared and unfair administrative practices.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/oct/26/carers-allowance-cliff-edge-abolished-in-the-budget">Continue reading...</a>
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Carers allowed to earn over the weekly limit without losing out as ‘cliff-edge’ abolished in the budget
<p>Controversial mechanism that hit unpaid carers with huge penalties to be scrapped following Guardian investigation</p><p>The controversial rule that led to unpaid carers being punished with penalties amounting to thousands of pounds is to be abolished, the Guardian can reveal.</p><p>The chancellor, John Healey, is to announce a new digital taper system for the so-called carer’s allowance in Wednesday’s budget, effectively ending what is regarded as one of the UK benefit system’s most feared and unfair administrative practices.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/oct/26/carers-allowance-cliff-edge-abolished-in-the-budget">Continue reading...</a>