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IDS admits to universal credit failings
TORY minister Iain Duncan Smith has cost taxpayers billions by cocking-up his cruel welfare policies, Labour revealed yesterday.
Independent research for the party shows his Department for Work and Pensions has caused the Treasury to spend £5 billion more than planned topping-up poverty pay during this parliament.
Shadow work and pensions secretary Rachel Reeves will tear into the “Tory welfare waste” in a speech today in the east London borough of Redbridge.
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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
