The benefits up-rating cap is unfair and a big political risk for the government, the TUC said ahead of the Commons vote on 8 January.
'Ministers think that the benefits uprating cap will bring them a political dividend that is as effective in delivering votes as it is in reducing the living standards of millions of people on low to middle incomes', said Frances O'Grady.
Earlier, TUC-commissioned polling showed that ministers cannot assume that voters will continue to back them in their plans to cap welfare benefit rises. Revealing widespread ignorance about spending on welfare, the reality of unemployment, and levels of fraud, the poll showed that voters least able to give accurate answers about benefits are the most likely to back the government's policy on cutting them.
TUC on the vote @
http://www.tuc.org.uk/social/tuc-21803-f0.cfm
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