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Old 12-01-2013, 11:46   #27
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Re: Happy Margaret Thatcher Day ...

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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter View Post
Indeed. She cut welfare spending with the 1986 Social Security Act, by abolishing Supplementary Benefit and replacing it with Income Support.

Additionally, "Additional Requirements" were scrapped in favour of premiums, in an attempt to target more at pensioners, lone parents and the disabled.

This was mainly paid for by reducing benefit for single householders under the age of 25.

Apart from Child Benefit and the Christmas Bonus, to my knowledge, she never failed to uprate benefits with inflation.

This lot have put in place policies that have led to people with heart conditions being sent back to work and dying, suicides with the worry and people with cancer being told to look for work- disgusting.



Yup, she started the me, me, me greedy society that we still have today.
do you have any proof of this or is just another wild story from your infinite repertoire of made up facts ?
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