It was three weeks after Christmas when the bombshell letter arrived. Guy Shahar and his wife, Oksana, looked at each other in stunned disbelief.

They had followed the Guardian’s investigation into the carer’s allowance scandal that has left thousands of families with crippling debts and criminal records. Not once did they think they would join them.

“Important,” it read in big bold type. “You have been paid more carer’s allowance than you are entitled to. You now need to pay this money back”.

In some weeks, she was paid just 38p more than the threshold – but for that tiny infraction she is being forced to repay £64.60 each time, the rate of carer’s allowance at the time.

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    Ah the imaginary death camps. Been over 100 days and still no death camps. Also none of these death camps popped up in the entire 4 years of the previous trump presidency. Strange that.

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      You just aren’t first on the list. Don’t worry, it will come.

      Trump is not a Liberterian messiah, he is very much the government.

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        Who was first on the list? After 4 years of death camps from 2016-2020 and now another 100 days, we’d surely be pretty far down the list right? At least past…1? Or even up to 1 by now?

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          Immigrants obviously. Easy to hate. Then people that look like immigrants, then people who support foreign countries that USA does not, so on.

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            So when does that death camp start? We’re currently 4.3~ years into trumps 8 years of presidency and no signs of any death camps yet.

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              No signs if you cover your eyes and ignore El Salvadore. Because you literally need big red signs with “Death Camp” written in red, to understand that something is a death camp. It would be impossible to actually prove anything to you.

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                Illegal immigrants who were determined to be MS13 gang members were deported and you’re claiming death camps lol

                I can’t believe you guys actually believe this stuff you’re writing. It’s got to just be reading the party approved talking points manual and parroting their arguments.