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» Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Welfare Reform

Asked for a reaction to the Welfare Bill passing through the House, the PMS said that the Government had to tackle the record deficit and it had set out plans to do that within the course of Parliament. The PMS said that the welfare bill had ballooned over the past decade and it was important to bring it down. He said that those people who needed support should, of course, receive it but the Government also wanted to sharpen incentives to help people get off benefits and into work.

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