Commenting on the Welfare Benefits Up-rating Bill
published today (Thursday), which will see a range of benefit and tax credit
rises capped at just one per-cent until 2015, TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber
said:
"The Chancellor's decision to cap benefit rises at one per cent is yet another squeeze on working families' budgets. At a time when real wages are still falling the government is taking thousands away from struggling households in tax credits and child benefit, whose value is also being cut.
"In the week before Christmas George Osborne is bringing forward measures that will make it even harder for people to make ends meet in the year ahead."
"The Chancellor's decision to cap benefit rises at one per cent is yet another squeeze on working families' budgets. At a time when real wages are still falling the government is taking thousands away from struggling households in tax credits and child benefit, whose value is also being cut.
"In the week before Christmas George Osborne is bringing forward measures that will make it even harder for people to make ends meet in the year ahead."
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