Welfare reform 'will force NI children into poverty'

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Welfare reform 'will force NI children into poverty':
Patricia Lewsley-Mooney said a third of children in Northern Ireland were already living in poverty. Northern Ireland will be hit harder than any other region outside London, if planned welfare reforms are pushed through Stormont, it has been claimed.


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