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A QUARTER of all benefit claimants in Copeland are having their subsidies cut because of the bedroom tax, official figures confirmed yesterday.
According to a new report by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), over 1,200 of Copeland’s less than 5,000 residents will see their benefits shrink by £15 a week.
The Cumbrian borough has the highest figure in Britain — the average is 9 per cent.
DYLAN MURPHY reports that far from helping people back into work, the sanctions regime is inflicting unnecessary trauma on working-class families
Labour will find increases in the state pension age are unacceptable, just as cuts to the Winter Fuel Allowance, personal independence payments and universal credit are — it needs to change direction immediately, writes PCS general secretary FRAN HEATHCOTE
LOTTE COLLETT welcomes the arrival of a new party for the left, a vehicle for councils to finally fight for progressive policies on housing, green spaces and public facilities, rather than administering cuts and misery from central government
