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  Courtesy Independent............
  
  The real cost of benefits squeeze: £1,600 per family
  
  Devastating research finds only one in eight households facing cuts will be able to find work
  
  Welfare cuts that are meant to get the jobless back to work are driving down the living standards
  
  of hundreds of thousands of people who are in no position to find a job, an assessment of the
  
  Coalition's welfare reforms says today.
  
  Researchers, who have used data to forecast what will happen to the 1.18 million households
  
  where no one works, have calculated that 155,000 (roughly one in eight) can mitigate the effect
  
  of the cuts by finding work near their home, while another 115,000 will have the opportunity
  
  to move to more affordable housing. The rest - more than three-quarters of the total - will simply
  
  see their incomes drop, according to an independent study carried out for the Local Government
  
  Association by the Centre for Economic and Social Inclusion.

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