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labour benefits welfare rachel reeves
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AI-generatedThe article discusses UK welfare spending and claimant numbers, with no direct commercial mechanism, supply chain, or commodity price impact. It is a domestic fiscal/social policy story without identifiable sector-level revenue, cost, or margin effects. No concrete commercial mechanism detected.
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- Over 600,000 UK households received more in welfare than average worker salary last year.
- UK welfare bill projected to rise by £73.2bn to £406.2bn over five years.
- Working-age claimants increased from 2.8m to 4.5m.
- Two-child limit on Universal Credit scrapped, potentially benefiting 480,000 families.
- UK unemployment at 5.2%, highest since 2021.