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HB since 1996
from the bbc this morning:
My…how strange….according to DWP there are only 5000 cases in the whole UK….
Are you accusing the the right honorable (?) Ian Duncan Smiths Department of getting its figures and statistics wrong? The secretary of state wouldnt do that…......
‘Chris Bryant, a Labour spokesman on work and pensions, said that it was now clear Mr Duncan Smith was “picking numbers out of thin air.” He said: “With just a third of councils so far responding to our Freedom of Information requests, we already know that over 16,000 people are affected. At this rate the total will be nearly 50,000 households, each of them overcharged by an average of £640. That’s £3,072,000 that will have to be repaid.”’