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Taxpayers spend £8m a year on interpreters for benefits claimants

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Summary
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80% Informative

DWP is paying out an average of 250 per call to give advice to non-English speaking benefits claimants.

44 calls in the past three years to provide translation services for those who spoke Mirpuri , a dialect of the Pahari-Pothwari language from Pakistan and India .

Other rarer languages registered for calls include Twi , Senufo and Bambara , spoken on the northern Ivory coast of Africa .

VR Score

84

Informative language

83

Neutral language

54

Article tone

formal

Language

English

Language complexity

55

Offensive language

not offensive

Hate speech

not hateful

Attention-grabbing headline

not detected

Known propaganda techniques

not detected

Time-value

short-lived

Source diversity

1

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