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Benefit and tax credit changes help workers
By Catherine Gaunt,
Nursery World,
19 March 2008
Child poverty campaigners have welcomed changes to the benefit and tax credit system worth just under £1bn as a significant step on the way to halving child poverty by 2010.
In his Budget speech, Chancellor Alistair Darling said that increasing tax on alcohol enabled the Government to improve support for families and lift more children out of poverty. From April 2009, child benefit for a family's first child will rise to £20 a week and the child element of the Child Tax Credit for families on low and middle incomes will increase by £50 a year above inflation. The Treasury...
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