The UK's Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has launched a £75 million, two-year audit of more than 200,000 historical carer's allowance cases, with around 25,000 unpaid carers expected to have their repayment debts cancelled or reduced after being unlawfully penalised. The review follows years of systemic failures that left hundreds of thousands of carers — people who provide unpaid care to ill, elderly, or disabled relatives — saddled with debts of up to £20,000 through no fault of their own, drawing comparisons to the Post Office scandal. However, campaigners have raised concern that existing overpayment recovery policies will remain in force during the overhaul, meaning new penalties will continue to be issued even as the government works to correct past injustices.