The Goverment's decision to cap benefit increases at 1% will leave 14,000 working families in Tower Hamlets worse off, Labour has claimed.
Chancellor George Osborne announced the cap in his November Autumn Statement. Even though Mr Osborne announced a rise of 1%, with inflation currently being a 2.6%, it actually represetents a cut in benefits.
Tower Hamlets Labour Party has said that local people with full-time jobs rely on tax credit to top-up wages that don’t meet the cost of living i...
