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Benefits boss job sparks row

A new £40,000-a-year manager's job to head a team helping people on benefits claim extra handouts has sparked a row.A new £40,000-a-year manager's job to head a team helping people on benefits claim extra handouts has sparked a row. The manager will oversee 40 council advisers who are currently touring a Black Country borough giving benefits advice. An extra £21 million of benefits money has been given out in Sandwell in the last year alone thanks to the squad. Now Sandwell Council is looking for a Welfare Rights Team Manager on a wage of almost £40,000 a year. This has sparked a row between pressure group the Taxpayers' Alliance - which has branded the new role a "non job,"- and Sandwell Borough Council. Read the full story in the Express & Star

Sandwell|Oct 20, 2007
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