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Closed working people should always take home more than anyone receives on benefit

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stop the culture where single people and those with only one or two children can take home after a weeks work considersbly less than everyone on benefit.
phase in the reductions in benefit that keep being discussed. no one should be able to see unemployed families with lifestyles better than theirs when they go out to work

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