Leave children’s allowance uncut, urges charity

The Society of St Vincent de Paul (SVP) is urging the Government to leave the children’s allowance alone.

“Over the last number of budgets it is really families with children who have been hit again and again very hard and this looks like another attack on the same group of people who really can’t take any more,” said SVP social policy development officer, CarolineFahey.

“We are saying leave the children’s allowance alone. That’s all we can say at the moment because we just don’t have any information on what is being proposed,” she said.