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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
David Maddox

‘Sickness not work has paid far too long’, warns leading thinktank after Labour’s £5bn benefit reforms

Labour’s plans to reform the welfare system by getting more people into work is the best route to helping people out a poverty, a leading think tank says, warning that ”for too long now it’s been sickness that pays”.

The Centre for Social Justice (CSJ), founded by Sir Iain Duncan Smith, did the groundwork for the last overhaul of welfare and the creation of the universal credit.

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