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Call for benefits system change

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Former Conservative leader Iain Duncan Smith has called for big changes in the benefits system to encourage more people off the unemployment register.

He says his proposals could help hundreds of thousands of people currently trapped by a system which would leave them poorer if they took up low paid work.

Alison Holt reports.

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