CUTS to welfare spending announced in the Summer Budget this week will have severe consequences for vulnerable people, the Church’s social-action arm has warned.
Helen O’Brien, Chief Executive of the Caritas Social Action Network (CSAN), said that the Chancellor’s plan to lower the benefit cap, from £26,000 to £20,000 and £23,000 in London, would push families deeper into poverty, forcing them to rely on food banks and charities.
Also among the £12bn of cuts that George Osborne announced in the first Conservative Budget for more than 18 years, was a cut in support for larger families, with child tax credits only extending to two children.
The Chancellor also announced the introduction of a compulsory National Living Wage, starting at £7.20 per hour next year and rising to £9 an hour by 2020.
09 July 2015, The Tablet
Welfare cuts will force families to food banks, CSAN warns
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