Work and pensions secretary heckled by anti-cuts protesters during a speech at the George hotel in Edinburgh
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Campaigners raise alarm as English councils replace cash loans with payment cards for people facing short-term financial crises
  Felicity A Morse  Felicity.Morse@huffingtonpost.com Posted: 25/03/2013 16:53 GMT  |  Updated: 25/03/2013 18:30 GMT   A community worker caring for a man who was […]
  Morning Star Comment Monday 25 March 2013   UKIP leader Nigel Farage must be delirious at the spectacle of all […]
  Britain ‘MSP rallies Labour over bedroom tax‘  Monday 25 March 2013 by Rory MacKinnon Morning Star Scotland reporter   Scottish Labour […]
CUF research Welfare reform Research Since coming to power in 2010, the coalition government has undertaken a radical reform of our welfare […]

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