THE TUC warned yesterday that the fallout from the government’s attack on welfare was hurting millions of people.

Following revelations of officials screwing up their benefits shake-up, TUC general secretary Frances O’Grady said the reports “smack not only of incompetence but of a systematic attempt to remove the safety net people depend upon when they fall on hard times.

“Taking money away from the most vulnerable in our society is not the way to make work pay.”