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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
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Liam Thorp & Kate Lally

DWP warning to millions of Universal Credit claimants

Jeremy Hunt has announced a range of measures concerning benefits in his Budget speech today.

The Chancellor is hoping to charge up the country's flatlining economy and is announcing a raft of measures that he hopes will get more people back into work. Money Saving Expert founder Martin Lewis has been tweeting "explanations and jargon translations" throughout.

In a major reform of the benefits system, the Chancellor said that a new white paper on disability benefits will include abolishing the hugely controversial workplace capability assessment used to decide whether people are fit for work and whether they qualify for benefits or not.

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