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Rising number of adults on benefits
The Scotsman, 7 March
Over half of adults are unemployed and on benefits in sixty areas of Britain today, reveal official figures. Furthermore, one in five children in Britain – 2.2 million – now live in households entirely dependent on state benefits, the highest proportion in Europe. Areas including parts of Manchester, Liverpool, London and Plymouth are high on the league table of places with the largest tally of claimants. In one part of Rochdale, near Manchester, 76% of working-age adults are receiving out of work benefits.
Chris Grayling, the shadow work and pensions secretary, said: ‘We are all paying a price for this failure as a nation, not just in the billions we spend on benefits but also in terms of social costs like crime and antisocial behaviour.’
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