Unpaid carers cost economy £5.3bn, charity warns

Carers who give up work to look after others cost England's economy about £5.3bn a year, the charity Age UK says.

It says an unfit care system means people often have to give up work to help the elderly or adult disabled
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The figure was calculated on the lost earnings and forgone taxes of more than 300,000 unpaid carers.

The government says its long-awaited white paper on social care is "imminent" and will include funding changes to "transform care".

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