Low Earners Brace For Osborne's Spending Cuts

Government departments have been asked to model cuts of 25% and 40%, with reductions in budgets across Whitehall, apart from a handful of protected departments - with ringfences around schools, the NHS and defence. In low-income cities such as Bradford in Yorkshire, that has led to uncertainty and fears about the impact the cuts could have. Bradford West has the country's highest level of dependency on in-work benefits per household: 57,000 of families rely on benefits including working tax cred