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overpayments. An [official review of carer’s allowance](https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/nov/25/failures-tory-ministers-welfare-officials-carers-allowance-crisis-review-finds) last year found DWP backlogs and record-keeping issues
issues. The DWP made its original overpayment demand in 2021 after insisting she was paid a carer premium on top of her monthly universal credit payment, even though she informed them several times, by phone