article_snippet: The IFS also raised serious questions about Ed Miliband's much-repeated counter-claim that families are £1,600 worse off than families were in 2010.
article_snippet: In its annual post-Budget briefing yesterday, its suggested the Labour leader’s figure was out of date and failed to take account of rising pensioner incomes, surging employment or changes to the tax and benefit system.
article_snippet: The think-tank’s verdict potentially deals a fatal blow to Ed Miliband's claims of a cost of living ‘crisis’.
article_snippet: Here, the Daily Mail sorts the claim from the reality...
article_snippet: : Ed Balls immediately rubbished the figure, which is based on a measure called Real Household Disposable Income per capita, on the grounds that it also includes income received by churches, trades unions and charities.
article_snippet: Ed Balls rubbished George Osborne's suggestion that families are £900 better off than families were in 2010 .
highlights_snippet: Financial experts also raised questions about Ed Miliband's counter-claims .
  
highlights_snippet: But a think-tank said Ed Miliband's's figure was out of date and not correct .