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  I don't know which spin doctor first dressed up this benefit cut as a tax, but I'd rather have him on my side than against me. Sad thing is that so many people have swallowed the lie.
  
  Having said that, it has been explained crudely and dismissively by the coalition and administered ineptly, arrogantly and unkindly by the local authorities whose job it is to apply it. There are provisions in the regulations for genuine hardship cases to be considered yet council jobsworths too often ride roughshod over the needs of the most vulnerable, who are usually those least able to plead their case.
  
  This is a bad law and a gift to the opposition PR machine. Money has to be saved somewhere in the welfare budget but this is not it.

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