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Abbott warns of cuts to benefits

DAVID CROWE

THE AUSTRALIAN

FEBRUARY 12, 2014 12:00AM

 

TONY Abbott has signalled that personal benefits could be scaled back in the May budget by declaring that “everyone” had to live within their means, amid signs yesterday of tough measures to repair the nation’s finances.

As the government heralds the end of an “age of entitlement” in federal spending, the Prime Minister acknowledged that individual benefits would be under scrutiny just as much as those going to companies.

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