article_snippet: Families are better off than when The Conservatives came to power, the economy is growing faster than expected and consumers are more confident than consumers have been for more than 12 years, official figures revealed yesterday.
article_snippet: Are you better off than you were four years ago’ – as a central plank of its election campaign, but the pressure on family finances has eased in recent months as the cost of food and fuel tumbles and wages rise.
article_snippet: Families are £1,600 worse off.
article_snippet: The independent Office for Budget Responsibility predicts families will be £900 better off by the end of 2015.
article_snippet: Not every family feels better-off yet.
highlights_snippet: Figures revealed families are better off now than when Coalition started .
  
highlights_snippet: Labour repeatedly said families are £1,600 worse off than before Coalition .
  