Search results for ‘child benefit’
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Childcare scheme set to help working parents
Families where both parents are in work could soon be offered taxpayer-funded help with childcare, according to reports.
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Benefits cap of £500-a-week begins
The new benefits cap, meaning couples and lone parents can receive no more than £500 a week from the state, is rolled out from Monday. But David Cameron’s Twitter endorsement of the cap backfires.
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Universal credit launched in benefits shake-up
The government faces protests as it launches the controversial new universal credit benefit system as part of major changes to welfare.
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Immigrants’ benefits: a complicated system explained
From 2014, Bulgarians and Romanians coming here will be subject to the same rules as other European nationals. Alison Harvey explains the complicated benefits system for people entering the UK.
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FactCheck: the benefit cap row
Iain Duncan Smith has been rapped by the statistics watchdog before. Critics now say he is misrepresenting government figures to defend the controversial cap on benefits. FactCheck investigates.
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Benefits cap begins in London
A cap on the amount of benefits people can receive on a weekly basis begins in London today amid a row over whether it will change behaviour.
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Cameron says benefit reforms put ‘fairness back’
David Cameron claims government changes to benefits are “restoring the fairness” in Britain, while Labour wants to “strengthen the old principle of contribution”, calling Tory changes “hopeless”.
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Politicians battle over benefits of tax changes
As a raft of changes to the tax system come into effect, the government and opposition clash over the winners and losers.
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Mick Philpott – appalling criminal or benefits cheat?
Is Mick Philpott, found guilty of the manslaughter of six of his children, the perpetrator of an extraordinary crime – or an illustration of what has gone wrong with the benefits system?
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Osborne hits back at critics of benefits reform
George Osborne launches a vehement defence of the coalition’s benefits shake-up, insisting Britain can no longer afford to reward people who do the “wrong thing”.
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Benefits shake-up kicks in
As a raft of benefit changes finally come into play today, MPs brush off criticism from churches and charities to insist the new system will be “fairer”.
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Disabled people ‘hit by multiple benefit cuts’
Hundreds of thousands of disabled people will be worse off as a result of six different benefit cuts, according to Scope.
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Childcare winners and losers – FactCheck Q&A
From vouchers to credits, FactCheck digs in to the latest proposals from the government on childcare.
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Childcare costs: working parents to get £1,200
Working parents will get 20 per cent of their annual childcare costs paid by the government – up to £1,200 per child – under a new scheme announced today.
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Number of children in fuel poverty rises to 1.6 million
The number of UK children living in fuel poverty rises to 1.6 million – a 9 per cent increase over three years – according to new research, which comes as British Gas announces an 11 per cent profit.