The welfare dilemma: how to help 3.5mn people trapped on health-linked benefits?
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Plan to freeze key disability benefit may be dropped
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Tensions grow over UK government plan to cut welfare payments
Work and pensions secretary Liz Kendall prepares to slash spending on health-related benefitsFinancial Times - 1d -
Some PIP recipients may lose out under welfare cuts
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Labour may have ditched its factional in-fighting - but deep welfare cuts could reignite tensions.BBC News - 3d -
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How to cut Britain’s rising welfare bill
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Government’s employment reforms clash with its welfare plans
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Liz Kendall unveils UK benefits cuts set to leave many sick and disabled worse off
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Disability benefit cuts test loyalty of Labour MPs
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