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Workers hit hardest by tory attack on welfare
Low-paid families suffer most from Con-Dem benefits assault - not so-called scroungers

Hard-pressed workers already struggling in low-paid jobs will be worst hit by the Con-Dems' brutal benefit cuts, the TUC warned yesterday.

Of 43 welfare changes made since 2010, 34 battered working people - including cuts to child tax credits, housing benefit and disability benefit.

"For all the government's rhetoric about targeting scroungers, the truth is that welfare cuts are hurting low-paid working families more than anyone else," stormed TUC general secretary Frances O'Grady.

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