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The Department for Work and Pensions is preparing for a major crackdown on fraud and error in the welfare system under the Labour Party government. But the DWP has been warned by campaigners: "At what cost?"

The Big Issue, a leading UK publication, reports human rights campaigners fear that the government's methods for tackling fraud and error in the benefits system could have 'devastating consequences'.

Jen Clark, economic, cultural and social rights lead at Amnesty International UK said: “The obsessive focus on benefit fraud from consecutive governments has been key to creating our consciously cruel social security system.”

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