GEORGE Osborne’s, pictured, latest round of cuts brings more bad news for families especially those with parents in low paid insecure employment.

Losing your job will become an even worse trauma from 2015 as you will then have to wait seven days before you can even make a claim.

Official figures say that it takes 16 days on average for claims to be processed now, though charities say it often takes up to 25 days.

So this means families trying to survive for even longer with no income at all. These families could already be in debt. So more families will have to turn to food banks to feed their children, or fall into the clutches of loan sharks and doorstep lenders.

Great big holes are opening up in the ‘safety net’ that we could once all rely on in times of hardship. This is potentially bad news for everyone.

MARGARET WAREING (Oxford and District Child Poverty Action Group) Oxford Road Littlemore