Carers on benefits have now become financially vulnerable too
THE ageing population is causing some of the biggest social problems we have had to confront in decades.
Even so, it is absolutely shocking to discover that the six million men and women who selflessly care for the sick and the elderly are suffering from serious financial hardship as a direct result of their actions.
The Daily Express is no fan of unnecessary state handouts but against this background it is quite wrong to cut support services – the money saved, a comparatively paltry £1billion, could be found elsewhere.
The foreign aid budget would be a start. As it is, we are in the obscene position of giving money to India, which has its own space programme while denying help to the people in our own country who need it most.
Being a carer is one of the most difficult roles that anyone can fulfil and to penalise these decent folk is outrageous.
A society deserves to be judged not just on how it treats its elderly but those who look after them. We are falling a fair way short.
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