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Benefits cap will ‘inevitably’ become law

28/01/2013 – 8:00 am

A benefits bill that will see disabled people in 3.4 million households across Britain lose out looks certain to become law.
The welfare benefits up-rating bill was passed by MPs this week and will now be debated in the House of Lords.
It will see many benefits up-rated by only one per cent in 2014-15 and 2015-16, [...]

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Budget benefit cuts are ‘serious threat’ to independence

17/12/2012 – 10:00 am

Hundreds of thousands of disabled people without work are to be hit hard by further cuts to their support, despite the chancellor’s claims in his autumn statement that he was protecting disability benefits.
George Osborne announced this week that he would restrict the annual “uprating” increase in most working-age benefits to just one per cent for [...]

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