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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Aine Fox

Universal credit health benefit reform sees cut for new claimants this week

Welfare changes from this week will reform a system that has “for too long locked disabled people and people with long-term conditions out of work”, the Government has said.

The reforms will tackle what ministers have branded “perverse incentives” which they argued encouraged people to stay on benefits without support to move into work.

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