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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Aine Fox

Welfare reforms will leave ‘gaping chasm’ with 600,000 at risk of losing out

A radical change in welfare reform which could see a million people on benefits required to work and 600,000 lose hundreds of pounds a month has been described as a “purpose-built gaping chasm” in the system for disabled people.

Analysis presented a day after the Government announced its planned overhaul of the benefits system warned the measures risk either “runaway spending” or sick, low-income people “losing out”.

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