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Benefit cuts for unemployed who refuse jobs (AFP)

November 11th, 2010

A man enters a Job Centre in north London. The government unveiled a radical shake-up of the welfare state Thursday, saying it would withhold benefit payments for up to three years from those who refuse to take jobs.(AFP/File/Leon Neal)AFP - The coalition unveiled plans to withhold handouts for up to three years for those who refuse a job Thursday in the biggest shake-up of the post-war welfare state, a day after violent protests rocked London.


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