Osborne 'Wants To Slash Sick Pay By £2.5bn'

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Channel: Sky News · 2010 · News & Politics

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The Chancellor is facing a backlash over claims he agreed to slash £2.5bn from the sickness benefits budget. 

The Observer newspaper claims the plans were detailed in a letter from George Osborne to Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith in June.

Sky's political correspondent Glen Oglaza reports.

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