The Labor Department said the number of initial claims for state benefits fell 7, 000 to 340, 000.
To Mr Cameron, the machinery of state benefits is less about need and more about nudging.
If state benefits are cut, more of the burden will fall on private provision.
Police found the couple had bought their house although neither had a declared income other than state benefits.
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"Those in receipt of state benefits were told to hand over their benefits to their bosses, " he said.
Pensioners have experienced higher inflation than non-pensioners and pensioners relying on state benefits have been hit particularly hard.
Altogether, state benefits account for about 60% of pensioner income, with the remaining 40% coming from private provision.
The organisation claimed the rise was because more households are struggling with unemployment and changes in state benefits.
Johnston had claimed to be unemployed and was in receipt of state benefits.
But it warned that business was not ready for the Universal Credit system, which will replace many state benefits.
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The CPI is also the measure used to establish changes to state benefits.
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When Labour took over, more than 5m working-age adults subsisted on state benefits.
Iain Duncan Smith has said he is "relaxed" about whether well-off pensioners should pay back some of their state benefits.
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Its plan has been to concentrate state benefits more on lower earners, leaving everyone else even more reliant on private provision.
The proportion of people on state benefits is twice the national average, as is the proportion of Liverpudlians who lack formal qualifications.
This could mean that council tax benefit will depend on where you live - a change to the concept of universal state benefits.
That may be because the combination of low wages, expensive housing and state benefits create a poverty trap that discourages people from working.
The power of these automatic stabilisers is greater in Europe, where state benefits are more generous and the tax take higher, than in America.
But galvanised by anti-immigrant measures in California notably Proposition 187, which barred various state benefits to illegal immigrants they are registering to vote on an unprecedented scale.
Funded by the Department for Social Development, it is aimed at owner-occupiers and private renters in Northern Ireland who are also claiming some state benefits.
State benefits for foster carers have been increased - in St Petersburg they are equivalent to about half the average salary for the first fostered child.
He told the BBC that between 40 and 60% of those people who needed food parcels claimed them because of the late delivery of their state benefits.
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Dozens of state benefits are pegged to the RPI, but officials have promised that handouts such as jobseeker's allowance and housing benefit will at worst be frozen.
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Unemployment payments up to 26 weeks for workers who temporarily lost jobs because of the disaster and who do not qualify for state benefits, such as self-employed individuals.
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The government now intends to use CPI for the uprating of state pensions, state benefits and also for the inflation-related increases built into the big public sector pension schemes.
Each year thousands of men are unaware they are eligible for the payment from the age of 60, which can be claimed regardless of whether they are claiming state benefits.
The collapse of the oil price, which may not have ended yet, means the government must cut the costly state benefits it showers on its citizens, and spend less on high-tech weapons.
Worries focused on jobs and resources: Britons were the most likely to say that immigrants were taking jobs and the least likely to say they should have access to the same state benefits as natives.
However, in opposition to the minister's comment, the big problem I have with the system is that if my former partner finds herself in receipt of state benefits, my son receives no benefit from my earnings.
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