
The controversial rule that led to unpaid carers being punished with penalties amounting to thousands of pounds is to be abolished, the Guardian can reveal.(《卫报》获悉,一项导致无偿护理者被处以数千英镑罚款的争议性规则将被废除。)
《卫报》获悉,一项导致无偿护理者被处以数千英镑罚款的争议性规则将被废除。
The chancellor, John Healey, is to announce a new digital taper system for carer’s allowance in Wednesday’s budget, effectively ending what is regarded as one of the UK benefit system’s most feared and unfair administrative practices.(财政大臣约翰·希利将在周三的预算案中宣布针对护理者津贴的新数字化递减系统,从而有效终结这项被视为英国福利体系中最令人恐惧且最不公平的行政做法之一。)
财政大臣约翰·希利将在周三的预算案中宣布针对护理者津贴的新数字化递减系统,从而有效终结这项被视为英国福利体系中最令人恐惧且最不公平的行政做法之一。
The scandal was highlighted in a Guardian investigation that revealed how hundreds of thousands of carers have, through no fault of their own, run up life-changing debts in recent years after overstepping weekly earnings thresholds by just a few pence.(《卫报》的一项调查凸显了这一丑闻,调查揭示数十万护理者在近几年因每周收入仅超出限额几便士,便在毫无过错的情况下累积了改变人生的债务。)
《卫报》的一项调查凸显了这一丑闻,调查揭示数十万护理者在近几年因每周收入仅超出限额几便士,便在毫无过错的情况下累积了改变人生的债务。