Ex-ministers urge Sunak to halt prosecutions over carer allowance rule breaches
• Ex-ministers press PM Sunak to end prosecutions of unpaid carers over earnings rule breaches • Carers plunged into debt, criminal records over small allowance overpayments • Carers save UK £160bn per year; system failure for not catching issues sooner • MPs to grill welfare minister on carers allowance scandal, DWP failure to use real-time data • Thinktank calls it "scandalous miscarriage of justice"; DWP defends staff over media coverage