Unpaid carers being forced to repay £250m to DWP in allowance overpayments

Gina Price cared for her dad while working part-time at a petrol station. She said she would sometimes agree to work an extra shift, but would do fewer other weeks. This way, she believed she would remain under the earnings threshold to qualify for the benefit.She now owes the DWP around £7,000 in overpayments, and said the debt was a "huge blow".It is "a big debt by anyone's standards", let alone someone working…