A good proportion of those are in-work benefits so it is both incredibly socially painful for the people who receive those cuts but politically it's painful to cut working tax credits in any democracy.

因此对于接受这些削减的人来说， 这在社会上是极其痛苦的， 但在政治上， 在任何民主国家削减工作税收抵免都是痛苦的。