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<Title>Welfare Reform and Work Act 2016</Title>
<Number>2016 Chapter 7</Number>
<LongTitle>An Act to make provision about reports on progress towards full employment and the apprenticeships target; to make provision about reports on the effect of certain support for troubled families; to make provision about life chances; to make provision about the benefit cap; to make provision about social security and tax credits; to make provision for loans for mortgage interest and other liabilities; and to make provision about social housing rents.</LongTitle>
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