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Young carer who unwittingly breached allowance rules forced to repay £2,000

The Guardian

Rose Jones, who cared for mother from age of eight, twice wrongly advised by work coach on joining DWP job scheme A young carer who had looked after her disabled mother from the age of eight was forced to repay more than £2,000 when she unwittingly breached carer’s allowance benefit earnings rules after joining a government youth employment scheme. Rose Jones, 22, said she was twice wrongly advised by her jobcentre work coach that her wages earned under the Kickstart scheme would not affect her

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Race, class and child welfare: AEI gets it wrong again

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

The Charles Murray faction of the extreme right offers up a remarkable collection of half-truths, straw men, and statistics abuse. "So you see," says the child welfare establishment, "of course we'll accept your approach. All you have to do is clear the bar!" The American Enterprise Institute is the right-wing think tank that is the longtime home of Charles Murray , author of the notorious exercise in what the Southern Policy Law Center aptly calls “racist pseudo-science” known as The Bell Curve