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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Rob Merrick

Fears that poor face second year of benefits cuts after inflation tipped to top 18%

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Britain’s poorest people must not be forced to endure a second successive year of benefits cuts after a shock warning that inflation will top 18 per cent, anti-poverty campaigners say.

The alarm was raised after the prediction that prices will be growing at their fastest rate in almost half a century by January – when benefits are only set to rise by around 11 per cent from April.

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