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News: Docking alcoholics’ benefits fundamentally inhumane - Webb

4.45.00pm BST (GMT +0100) Tue 14th Apr 2009

Commenting on new Government plans to dock alcoholics’ benefits if they do not get treatment, Liberal Democrat Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary, Steve Webb said: “Threatening to deprive people of their basic benefits unless they recover from alcoholism is fundamentally inhumane."

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