Universal Credit could leave millions of families up to £3,000 per year worse off due to welfare cuts, the Resolution Foundation has warned.
The Court of Appeal has ruled that the government’s removal of the so-called “spare room subsidy” unlawfully discriminates against a domestic violence victim and family of severely disabled 15-year-old boy.
Liberal Democrat MP Danny Alexander has leaked Conservative proposals to cut child benefit, while the Lib Dems and Tories were in coalition together.
Chancellor George Osborne has said that a further £25 billion of cuts would be needed after the next election, with young people a particular focus of the suggested welfare savings.
Young people may be feeling left out of the David Cameron’s “land of opportunity for all” as the Tories have pledged to deny housing benefit and jobseekers allowance to the under 25s.