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Rachel Reeves squeezes benefits as 2025 growth forecast halved in Spring Statement

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Office for Budget Responsibility ( OBR ) halved growth forecast for this year to 1% .

Government analysis suggests 3.8 million families will be on average 420 per year better off.

But more than 3 m families will on average be 1,720 a year worse off by 2030 due to benefit cuts.

Labour MP Jon Trickett : "Picking on disabled people is not the right thing to do".

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