Proposals for payment for reporting on ‘benefit cheats’ brings angry response
Fears that new policy could ‘tear communities apart’
Government proposals to pay people who report on ‘benefit cheats’ have received an angry response from anti-poverty campaigners. Minister Ed Miliband said he was considering including the idea in Labour’s general election manifesto. But Church Action on Poverty (CAP) predicted that the policy could ‘tear communities apart’.
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