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10 years of hollowing out our benefits system
If we’d stuck with the social security we had a decade ago, 1.5 million fewer people would be living in poverty

By
Sarah Arnold, Dominic Caddick, Lukasz Krebel
20 February 2021

Our social security system looks very different to how it did 10 years ago. While a few changes have been for the better, overall our social safety net has got significantly weaker in terms of level of support provided. Cuts have reduced the ability of the system to support incomes during the current

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