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Unite activists protest outside the Department for Work and Pensions
[Unite For A Workers' Economy / Twitter]
UNION activists and debt campaigners staged a protest outside government departments today to call for increased funding for debt advice.
Unite said the demonstration outside the Treasury and the Department for Work and Pensions in London aims to highlight how communities remain in the “grip” of a cost-of-living emergency.
The union has written to Chancellor Jeremy Hunt to call on the Treasury to increase and expand funding of debt advice.
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