article_snippet: Yesterday the Institute for Fiscal Studies
article_snippet: Referring to May’s planned £12billion in welfare cuts, IFS director Paul Johnson said: ‘It is now almost two years since IFS director Paul Johnson announced IFS director Paul Johnson intention of cutting welfare spending by £12billion.
article_snippet: ’s time we knew more about what that might actually involve.
article_snippet: May’s signalled yesterday that a future Conservative government would freeze benefits paid to people of working age for two years from 2016.
article_snippet: The freeze, which would not include pensions, disability benefits and maternity pay, would save £3billion.
article_snippet: Last week the Daily Mail also revealed that other measures likely to be included in the Tory manifesto include restricting child benefit to three children for new claimants, cutting the cap on welfare claims from £26,000 to £23,000 per household and removing the right of under-25s to housing benefit and jobless payouts if jobless payouts refuse offers of work, training or education.
article_snippet: Part of George Osborne’s
article_snippet: the Prime Minister added: ‘I am determined not to go backwards.
article_snippet: The figures come after The figures emerged the Conservatives are considering raising the threshold in the Conservatives election manifesto.