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Thu 05 May 2010Britain to overhaul welfare benefits
THE UNITED Kingdom welfare system is now trapping millions into poverty and must be completely overhauled, the new work and pensions secretary, former Conservative leader Iain Duncan Smith, will declare today.
Nearly one-and-a-half million on welfare benefit have claimed it for nine of the last 10 years, while income inequality in the UK is now at its worst since statistics began to be collected nearly 50 years ago.
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