Welfare spending cuts

• howard mcsweeney1

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  2 June 2015     19:04283154
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  Dave has rejected the plan from IDS to limit child benefit to the first two in any family which would have saved 1 billion quid so the question remains as to where the cuts will be made to make up the 12 billion quid savings.
  
  
  
  http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/jun/01/downing-street-rejects-iain-duncan-smith-plan-for-new-limit-on-child-benefit
• howard mcsweeney1

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  4 June 2015     17:48283212
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  Welfare cuts still to be announced but departments with unprotected budgets got hammered today.
  
  
  http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/let-the-cuts-begin-george-osborne-sets-out-5-cuts-for-all-unprotected-departments-this-year-10296858.html
• howard mcsweeney1

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  11 June 2015     08:33283329
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  Unsurprisingly the low paid will take a big hit here.
  
  
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-33089711
• Guest 1348

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  11 June 2015     19:30283348
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  they are lowering the limit which is good as I wish in my house we earned that much between us. If they put up the minimum wage also then it will be better and more incentive to work. They need to do something.
• howard mcsweeney1

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  21 June 2015     12:40283615
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  On the same day of a massive anti-austerity demonstration more welfare cuts are announced, full details in next month's budget.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/welfare-cuts-of-12bn-to-be-announced-in-the-next-budget-10334565.html
• Bob Whysman

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  21 June 2015     14:05283618
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  I couldn't get your link to work Howard, so have taken the liberty of reposting it!
  
  http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/welfare-cuts-of-12bn-to-be-announced-in-the-next-budget-10334565.html
  Do nothing and nothing happens.
• Guest 725

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  21 June 2015     16:32283622
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  By most people's reckoning, yesterday's Pro debt rally attracted a mere 30 odd thousand helpfully led by a rich singer who uses accountants to advise her on how to save as much of her money as possible.
  Oh the irony.