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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
Dan Bloom

How Universal Credit cut would affect your payments as 8,000 hit in Liz Truss's seat

Nearly 8,000 poor people will be hit in Liz Truss’s own back yard if she goes ahead with her plans to cut Universal Credit for 5.6million Brits.

Analysis shows 7,908 people in her South West Norfolk seat are claiming the six-in-one benefit - and face a hit if she fails to raise welfare in real terms.

Tory Cabinet ministers have more than 186,000 Universal Credit claimants in their constituencies, the House of Commons Library research says.

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