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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Patrick Butler and Andrew Gregory

Macmillan accused of ‘betrayal’ over plan to axe cancer benefits advice service

A volunteers holds a donations bucket with the message: 'We are Macmillan Cancer Support'
The latest annual figures, from 2022, show that Macmillan’s advice services secured £112m in support for 34,000 cancer patients. Photograph: Sean Harkin/Alamy

Macmillan Cancer Support is to scrap its £14m-a-year specialist advice service, which helps tens of thousands of people every year, in what has been described as a betrayal of vulnerable patients.

Macmillan, one of the UK’s biggest and highest-profile charities, told staff and partners this week it planned to cease funding its specialist benefits advice services in just over a year’s time.

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