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The big benefit cheat
Apr 10 2008, Aaron

Billions of pounds flow into the Exchequer by stealth but it is not the middle classes who are losing out, it is those with the lowest incomes.

Twenty years ago, a single manual worker on half the average earnings would, if they lost their job, get...

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