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December 3, 2009 4:59 pm
As the 2010 general election looms, the major parties continue to battle it out over how to cut public expenditure. Reductions in the UK benefits system has been discussed as one of the main ways to plug the government’s deficit and alleviating the public debt burden. Here the Financial Times looks at the major benefits offered by the government and asks what they are, how you get them and how much they cost.
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