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Dundee debt-busting scheme tries to tackle poverty

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Episode notes

Dundee and the wider Tayside region has served as the pilot for a scheme to tackle public debt.
National charity Aberlour have been helping families in poverty unable to pay their rent or council tax.
But how has the project worked for the local community, and can it actually save taxpayers’ cash?