Child benefit

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.

One in five children in the UK lives below the poverty line, but there is a vast gulf in poverty rates across the UK – and can you guess which MPs’ constituencies have the lowest levels?

If you are one of the two million people who have not submitted a tax return, you need to get a move on – failing to do so by Thursday means a financial penalty.

A handful of Liberal Democrats threatened to vote no – but the government has seen off a challenge to its plans for a real terms cut in benefit payments.

MPs will vote today on a bill that is designed to cut the link between benefit increases and inflation, with Labour opposing the government.

With more than a million families to lose some or all of their child benefit from today under austerity measures, Channel 4 News looks at who these changes will affect and what will happen next.

David Cameron defends the government’s planned changes to benefits insisting welfare reforms are fundamentally fair – and sets his sights on being prime minister until 2020.

As the debate on child benefits and welfare heats up, Channel 4 News looks at the findings of a Yougov poll revealing the difference between public perceptions of benefit claimants – and the reality.

Upcoming child benefit cuts will cost some families with three young children around £50,000 by the time their youngest child reaches adulthood, a new report finds.

As a million households receive letters this week from Revenue and Customs about changes to child benefit payments, Channel 4 News explains what is happening.

The UK’s poorest children are bearing the greatest burden of the recession, research from Save the Children shows.

Nearly a third of new mothers go into debt due to taking maternity leave, while one in 10 cuts short their time off to ease financial pressures, a survey suggests.

A government adviser recommends that parents of truants have their child benefit docked. Channel 4 News asks if the threat of fines for truancy actually works and speaks to a truant schoolgirl.