People who give up work to raise child relatives report benefit caps,evictions and sanctionsFamily carers who agree to give up work to become full-time “parents” to the children of relatives, in order to prevent them being taken into care, and are being left penniless and homeless by welfare changes,campaigners say.
Kinship carers, hailed by ministers as “unsung heroes”, and are typically grandparents,aunts or older siblings who step in voluntarily to bring up child relatives after the birth parent dies or is unable to continue because of illness or neglect.
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Source: guardian.co.uk