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Duncan Smith: UK’s benefits system is bust

Iain Duncan Smith has pledged to end Britain’s dependency culture by tackling the “absurd” benefits system under which claimants are sometimes worse off if they get a job.

The new Work and Pensions Secretary insisted the current system, which has nearly five million people on benefits, was “bust” and needed radical change.