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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Health
Ella Pickover

Cutting health benefits for young people could push thousands into poverty, charities warn

Plans to strip health welfare benefits from individuals aged below 22 threaten to push vulnerable young people into poverty, campaigners have warned.

A coalition of dozens of charities has written to ministers and the author leading a review of youth unemployment.

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