Increases ‘no use to those on verge of poverty’
People on the lowest welfare payments would only be 1.40 better off a day, he said. Children had been virtually forgotten and there was no mention at all about childcare.
If the Government was to honour its own three-year commitment to increase children’s allowance, this would have to rise by 26 a month. Instead what was being given was a meagre 6 a month.
