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Jamie Redman is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Sheffield, specialising in employment and welfare.

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Why Suspicion of Benefits ‘Scroungers’ Could Be About to Reach New Heights

Jim Kaufman & Jamie Redman

Those who can’t work may soon be forced to.

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