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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Rachael Burford

Budget 2024: Benefit reforms to be sped up in bid to bring down 'ballooning' bill supporting jobless

Chancellor Rachel Reeves -

An overhaul of Britain’s benefits system and schemes to get more people working were announced on Monday ahead of the Budget.

In a bid to bring down the country’s “ballooning” benefits bill, the Chancellor pledged welfare reforms designed to make sure “people who can work, do work”.

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