Tax Credits Cuts ‘Will Leave Key Workers Up To £12,000 Poorer By 2020’

‘Teaching assistants, social workers and other key public sector workers could lose more than £1,500 a year as a result of controversial government cuts to working tax credits, according to calculations by the public sector workers union Unison.

The general secretary, Dave Prentis, warned of the damage to “precarious family finances” from George Osborne’s proposals, while highlighting the cases of five employees in the public sector who voiced their fears over the impact of the cuts.

The union said it hoped its research would add to the pressure on the chancellor, who is facing calls from some Conservative MPs to reconsider the plans, which it has been estimated will leave 3.2 million families worse off by an average of £1,300 a year from next April.’

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