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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
David Hughes

Kendall promises sweeping reforms to sickness benefits

Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall will set out sweeping reforms to sickness and disability benefits in the spring (Lucy North/PA) - (PA Wire)

The welfare budget has to be put on a “more sustainable course”, Liz Kendall said as she warned the country could not keep meeting the “costs of failure”.

The Work and Pensions Secretary, who will set out sweeping reforms to sickness and disability benefits in the spring, said more people needed to be moved off welfare and into jobs.

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