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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
Dan Bloom

DWP cuts record number of Universal Credit claimants' benefits in Tory crackdown

Record numbers of Brits are having their Universal Credit cut or stopped after numbers exploded in a Tory crackdown.

Charities today warned people “need these payments to live” after 110,000 claimants were being sanctioned by the Jobcentre in May.

The “cruel” figure - more than double six months ago, despite a cost of living crisis - is now nearly 6% of all potential claimants.

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