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Welfare to become a postcode lottery under Labour's plans to decentralise jobcentres, union warns
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WELFARE will become a postcode lottery under government plans to decentralise jobcentres, Britain’s biggest Civil Service union has warned.
PCS union’s national president Martin Cavanagh said he expects Labour will link the universal credit benefits system in to cash-strapped councils tomorrow.
He issued the warning after Department for Work & Pensions (DWP) secretary Liz Kendall said jobcentres were no longer “fit for purpose.”
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