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‘The State is handing you a pension’ – Judge blasts amount of benefits given to unemployed teen

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A district judge launched a scathing rebuke on the amount of state benefits being paid to an unemployed 18-year-old man who appeared in court with nine previous driving convictions – telling him that the level of government money he pockets was allowing him to “knock around” the country in uninsured, unlicensed and cars while under the influence of drugs....

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