{"id":56206,"date":"2024-05-22T12:52:04","date_gmt":"2024-05-22T12:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/22\/lib-dem-leader-quizzes-pm-on-dwp-hounding-carers\/"},"modified":"2024-05-22T12:52:04","modified_gmt":"2024-05-22T12:52:04","slug":"lib-dem-leader-quizzes-pm-on-dwp-hounding-carers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/22\/lib-dem-leader-quizzes-pm-on-dwp-hounding-carers\/","title":{"rendered":"Lib Dem leader quizzes PM on DWP &#8216;hounding&#8217; carers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/1024\/branded_news\/3613\/production\/_133334831_p0hzjpq0.jpg?fit=1024,576&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Lib Dem leader quizzes PM on DWP &#8216;hounding&#8217; carers\" title=\"Lib Dem leader quizzes PM on DWP &#8216;hounding&#8217; carers\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sir Ed Davey said the government should be supporting carers &#8220;not persecuting them&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He raised some of the cases of carers who had been told to pay back some of the overpayments saying they do a \u201cremarkable job&#8221; who should not be penalised for breaching the earnings limit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rishi Sunak praised carers but added the DWP \u201crightly\u201d sought to recover overpayments to protect the taxpayer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/live\/uk-politics-69042935\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Sunak and Starmer focus on infected blood scandal at PMQs<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-politics-69049163\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sir Ed Davey said the government should be supporting carers &#8220;not persecuting them&#8221;. He raised some of the cases of carers who had been told to pay back some of the overpayments saying they do a \u201cremarkable job&#8221; who should not be penalised for breaching the earnings limit. Rishi Sunak praised carers but added the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56207,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/1024\/branded_news\/3613\/production\/_133334831_p0hzjpq0.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[603],"tags":[29635,55297,53095,55298,1891,8378,37777],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56206"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56208,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56206\/revisions\/56208"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}