Spending Review: Views from Sheffield
Millions of public sector workers face losing automatic annual pay increases as part of an £11.5bn cuts package unveiled by Chancellor George Osborne.
He also announced a cap on total welfare spending and axed winter fuel payments for expatriate pensioners in hot countries from 2015.
The latest package of cuts means that local authorities will need to make more difficult choices between those services which should be protected - and those which are more vulnerable.
Danny Savage has been talking to people in Sheffield about the impact of the announcements.