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by a_name 3384 days ago
a comment from the article

>It would if the report was comprehensive. It isn't. It ignored housing benefit in private rentals. Housing benefit budget is £25b per year.

>It doesn't look at child benefit or break down tax credits.

>It doesn't include costs of increased school places (£5 billion additional allocated for this) nor health costs.

>The data is does use is not comprehensive from govt departments but a survey. Fact is we don't know all the costs as many are not recorded.

using the Guardian to back up a left leaning idea is like quoting The Daily Mail to back up a right leaning idea.