MPs agree on 5.2% benefits increase

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Coins on a ten pound note
Coins on a ten pound note

MPs have officially agreed a 5.2% increase in benefits as part of a package of changes to pensions and social security benefits.


Pensions Minister Steve Webb said the Coalition would be spending an extra £6.6 billion in 2012/13 at a time when the country's finances where "under severe pressure" to "protect people against increases in prices".

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