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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Business
Sam Barker & David Bentley

Universal Credit change this month will make it tougher for 114,000 to claim benefits

Changes to the benefits system from this month will see over 100,000 jobseekers facing losing their Universal Credit payments unless they follow new rules.

Proposed alterations, which are set to take place on September 26, are expected to take around 114,000 people out of the "light touch" system for jobseekers' payouts.

They will then be put into a group with more stringent rules on what they must do to continue claiming.

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