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DWP benefit claimants give verdict on welfare system - 'You're not treated as human'

DWP benefit claimants give verdict on welfare system - 'You're not treated as human'

Amnesty International's new research, which involves interviews with hundreds of people on benefits, claims the current welfare system is 'consciously cruel' and ruining lives

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