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And scattered showers in the north, but still fairly chilly for the time of year. All the details coming up on bbc breakfast. Good morning. Its saturday, 27th april. The governments being urged to take action to stop unpaid carers unwittingly racking up thousands of pounds of debt. Carers are entitled to nearly £82 a week in benefits, but only if they owned less than £151 in take home pay from otherjobs. As a result, many end up owing money after being inadvertently overpaid. Our reporter Dan Whitworth has the details. Unpaid carers who look after a loved one do an incrediblejob. Often unpaid carers who look after a loved one do an incredible job. Often 2a hours a day, seven days a week, with very few breaks. There lies dedicated to caring for someone else. Of the nearly 6 million carers across the uk, just under1 million receive carers allowance, with about £80 a week. 175,000 of them also have a job, but there is an earnings l ....
just to be clear, rhun ap iorwerth has no prior knowledge of the questions tonight. let s turn to the first question. abigail ensor. faith in politics is at an all time low, what are you going to do . to restore our trust in politicians? ifi if i can come a bit closer to you, thank you for the question. to me, it cuts to the heart of why we are here. we are asking you to consider voting for us and i think it is a basic premise that you should be able to trust what we are saying. we can look at it in terms of policy. you might have seen reports today, the institute for fiscal studies raising questions about how honest the labour party and the conservatives are being whether tax and spending plans, that they are not really telling you how they are going to go about saving these £18 billion that both parties say, implicitly, they have to make. we want honesty, and hopefully this evening we will get to talk about some of plaid cymru and my views on that. also, it is in beh ....