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Families on benefits pocketing more than average salary

31/12/2023

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AJ Williamson

Around 140,000 families are receiving more in benefits – £20,000 each year – than the average take home salary, according shadow work and pensions secretary, Chris Grayling. Employment minister Tony McNulty responded that the 140,000 families represented just 1 per cent of households with at least one person of working age receiving benefits, and that the majority of cases ‘include disability-related benefits and premiums’. Mr Grayling said the number was still ‘an awful lot’.

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