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CONTROVERSIAL housing benefit changes could see poorer families fall victim to loan sharks as they struggle to pay the rent, a city MP has warned.

Alison Seabeck for Plymouth Moor View was speaking during a Commons debate where action was urged to tackle the problem of people being exploited by doorstep lenders who levied eyewatering interest rates of up to 4,500 per cent. The Government has been pressed to undertake a review into high-cost credit lending to stop companies "preying on the vulnerability and desperation" of hard-up householders.

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It comes as it emerged that David Cameron had received a stark warning from within his own administrati...

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