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Category - child benefit

30 Dec 2012

Families to lose over £1,000 as a result of child benefit freeze and cap

A new report published by the TUC says families with two children will be over £1,000 worse off by the end of 2015 due to the freezing and capping of child benefit.
4 Nov 2012

Child benefit freeze will cost two-child families over £400

The government's decision to freeze child benefit between 2011 and 2014 will cost families with two children more than £400, TUC analysis reveals.
26 Oct 2012

Housing benefit cuts and ‘troubled families'

The son-in-law of Baron Cottesloe plans to punish those who do not limit their families to two children and at some time require welfare benefits. UK Welfare Secretary Iain Duncan Smith controversially proposes in future to limit housing benefit and other state assistance to the first two children only.
21 Mar 2012

The budget is 'grossly unfair', say poverty campaigners

Cuts in welfare, age-related tax benefits, child benefit and the minimum wage will combine with high joblessness and price increases to heighten austerity.
23 Jan 2012

Bishops lead the way in government defeat on benefits

The government has been defeated in the House of Lords in a key part of its attempts to reduce the benefits available to unemployed people and part-time workers.
23 Jan 2012

Religious leaders ask government not to penalise children

Christian, Muslim and Jewish leaders have issued a joint call for the government's household welfare benefit cap to exclude child benefit.
26 Nov 2010

Peer's comments show Tories' true colours, say critics

Conservative peer Howard Flight has been accused of showing “the Tories' true colours” after he said that benefit reforms would encourage poorer people to "breed".
4 Oct 2010

Barnado's says child benefit should give way to tax credits for poorest

Universal child benefit should be abolished and tax credits used to bolster the income solely of poor families, says the head of Barnardo's children's charity.
27 Jun 2010

Cutting services, funding war

David Cameron has tried to use Armed Forces Day to whip up support for the unpopular war in Afghanistan, but the ruinous cost of ineffective military spending is clearly at odds with his government's rhetoric about the urgent need for cuts.

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