article_snippet: Are you better off than you were five years ago?
article_snippet: George Osborne yesterday boasted that this year families will be £900 better off than in 2010, while Labour claims workers are £1,600 worse off.
article_snippet: George Osborne argues that families will be better off in 2015 than families were in 2010 .
article_snippet: Now, the facts show households on average will be around £900 better off in 2015 than The British people were in 2010 – and immeasurably more secure for living in a country whose economy is not in crisis anymore, but is instead growing and creating jobs.'
article_snippet: 'Even on the Chancellor own measure, people are worse off than people were in 2010. '
article_snippet: This is the first Parliament since the early 1920s when the average person in work will be worse-off at the end of a parliament than people were at the beginning. '
article_snippet: The fact is in answer to the famous Reagan question - 'Are you better off than you were five years ago?'
article_snippet: We are for sure much worse off on average than We could reasonably have expected to be back in 2007 or indeed back in 2010.'
article_snippet: In truth, most people do not really know if most people are actually better off than most people were five years ago, when inflation, tax and benefits are taken into account.
highlights_snippet: George Osborne claimed in Budget that families will be better off in 2015 .
  