JSA Likely to be Effectively Cut.

According to the Guardian.

“Welfare cut proposals to go before ministers. Iain Duncan Smith to lay out options for further cuts to welfare budget ahead of autumn statement by George Osborne.”

This will interest us,

Leading options for welfare cuts include restricting most working-age benefits to the first two children, affecting 310,000 families; freezing the up-rating of benefits for two years and then linking it to pay, as opposed to inflation; and withdrawing housing benefit for most people aged under 25, a move that would affect 385,000 people and save £1.5bn.

This will effectively be a cut in benefits, such as JSA.

The rise in energy costs, water bills (No doubt to help companies like Anglian Water already avoiding tax), and above all food prices, hits the out-of-work most.

Most of us will have walked round supermarkets and finding a staple (bread, sardines, eggs) has gone up.

For months and months this has been happening.

Not uprating our benefit in line with these rises will mean we will be squeezed even more.

And on top of this we will soon have to pay some Council Tax, in some cases a few hundred pounds a year.