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Welfare reforms 'cause £19bn hit'

By Press Association, Apr 11, 2013

The Government's raft of controversial welfare reforms will take almost £19 billion a year out of the UK economy and hit northern England hardest
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Families '£891 per year worse off'

By Press Association, Apr 03, 2013

Coalition tax and benefit changes have left families £891 a year worse off on average, Labour said as it stepped up attacks on a raft of welfare reforms
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Food voucher help bans booze

By Adrian Holliday, Mar 27, 2013

Food stamps replace cash for the vulnerable in April. They will ban booze and cigarettes. The right move?
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Council to export poor families to North

By Adrian Holliday, Feb 14, 2013

Camden Council plans to uproot more than 750 poor families from London to cheaper locations such as Bradford and Leicester
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Miliband hits out at welfare cuts

By Press Association, Jan 09, 2013

Ed Miliband has accused David Cameron of pursuing a strategy of "divide and rule" after the House of Commons voted in favour of legislation to impose real-terms cuts on welfare
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Unions raise benefit cuts concerns

By Press Association, Jan 08, 2013

Public support for a real-terms cut in most working-age benefits is based on ignorance of who will suffer, opponents of the welfare squeeze claimed
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Public hostile to welfare spending

By Press Association, Jan 04, 2013

The Government has been accused of spreading "prejudice and ignorance" over benefits after new research showed the public was hostile to welfare
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Welfare reform 'may hit households'

By Press Association, Oct 30, 2012

Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith's welfare reforms intended to encourage claimants to find work could in fact leave many households worse off
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