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Live News,26 Mar 2025,32 mins

Disability benefits cut again

Newsnight

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The Chancellor had to find money in the Spring Statement, and she found it in the welfare budget. Personal Independence Payment and Universal Credit were again in the firing line. Victoria Derbyshire interviews Darren Jones, chief secretary to the Treasury. In the studio is former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, now an independent MP, the Conservative's Richard Fuller, and the Liberal Democrats' Munira Wilson

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