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Charity calls for end to 'highly centralised' welfare system

Citizens Advice has called for the decentralisation of welfare benefits in England and an end to the ‘highly centralist’ system.

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By Dan Peters | 28 January 2015

Citizens Advice has called for the decentralisation of welfare benefits in England and an end to the ‘highly centralist' system.

A report published today by the charity argued that Whitehall had become ‘too dominant' in the design of welfare policy.

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