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Radio 4,09 Oct 2010,15 mins

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"It feels like begging, it's degrading." Listeners talk about living on benefit, in the week that the government began outlining welfare reforms. One listener talks of the shame and stigma she feels being on benefits, another, a charity worker, talks about the media's responsibility to portray the real lives of poorer people. Your News this week is read by Mark Lawson.

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