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Cost of disability benefits hits £20m, raising ‘grave concern’ about affordability

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There are approximately 100 new disability claimants each year, leading to a 400% increase in in the cost of disability benefits since the GSLP/Liberal administration was elected into Government and raising concern about affordability going forward, Parliament heard last week. The Minister for Social Security, Sir Joe Bossano, said the difference in numbers was “astronomical”...

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