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October 18, 2017 07:17 am PDT
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The Tories replaced benefits with "universal credit" and left a town to starve
In 2013, the Scottish city of Inverness had the unfortunate fate of being picked as the trial site for a pilot of "universal credit," one of the UK Conservative government's big ideas, in which the various benefits paid to low-income people were replaced with a single payment, centrally administered. (more…)
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