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My hon. Friend is right. This benefit is about empowering people. It is about helping them to take on work, or extra work.

I hope that the hon.

My hon. Friend is right. That was in the forecast for 2023-24 in the Office for Budget Responsibility’s Budget report.

I would like to meet the hon. Lady to discuss the matter, and to meet this person to see what we can do to support and help her.

That is a crucial question.

We are making work pay. That is why more people are going into work.

My hon. Friend makes a great point.

We have always said that we will deal with such cases.

We have accepted all but one of them, and in the one we did not accept we have been more generous, if you can believe it.

In those instances we are working with the individual and then helping them with a manual workaround to make sure they are back on benefit a