CON DEM BENEFIT SQUEEZE ‘THE WRONG CHOICE’  

CUTS WILL HIT SCOTTISH HOUSEHOLDS HARDCommenting on the announcement by Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, that the Con Dem coalition are making plans to scale back some universal benefits including child benefit and winter fuel allowance, SNP Work and Pensions Spokeswoman, Dr Eilidh Whiteford MP, said the UK Government kept making the wrong choices.Commenting, Dr Whiteford said:“The Con Dem coalition is piling the pain on Scottish households – hiking prices and squeezing incomes.“Taking the axe to child benefit and winter fuel allowances at the same time as increasing VAT will hit families and old folk hard. While the frontbench of Tory millionaires might not miss these small but essential allowances, people across Scotland will.“Choices must be made by the coalition government but they keep making the wrong ones. Instead of squeezing incomes for vulnerable households...