Welfare Cuts' Impact On Young People As Old Stay Protected (GRAPH)

George Osborne's promise to cut £12 billion more off the welfare budget after 2015 will pile further pressure onto young people.

Young people have extra reason to feel hard done by as the government is continuing to leave benefits for old people untouched and are promising to guarantee their pensions will keep rising past 2015, even though pensions take up over half of the welfare budget.