Articles Tagged: child benefit

Parents to have child benefit deducted if children miss school

By Kelly Rose Bradford, Apr 16, 2012

Charlie Taylor, the Government's 'Discipline Tsar' plans to issue parents with parking style fines via deductions through their child benefit if they allow their primary school kids to truant.

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What does the budget mean for you and your family?

By Sue Hayward, Mar 21, 2012

When the Chancellor, George Osborne, got to his feet he announced today's Budget would 'reward work' and 'support working families'. But it took him the best part of an hour to get to what, for many families, were the 'best bits'.

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Celebrity mums Kym Marsh and Karren Brady join the fight to stop working single mums losing up to £68 a week in benefits

By Keith Kendrick, Mar 14, 2012

Single mothers could lose up to £68 a week in benefits under plans to change the benefits system, according to Save the Children.

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Mum of ELEVEN says children are a blessing

By Kelly Rose Bradford, Jan 16, 2012

Tania Sullivan is 37 and a mum of 11. The super-mum, from Hoo in Kent, appears on the Channel 4 programme 15 Kids and Counting on Tuesday (17 January) to tell her story.

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Family with 10 children on £14,000 salary refuse benefits

By Kelly Rose Bradford, Aug 18, 2011

A young couple with TEN CHILDREN have told the Sun how they refuse any state hand-outs beyond Family allowance, despite the dad earning just £14,000 a year as a carer.

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Families with newborns hardest hit by Government cuts

By Kelly Rose Bradford, Jan 10, 2011

Families with newborns will be amongt the hardest hit by the Coalition Government's benefit reforms, says a report from the ...

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Child benefit cuts: how will the loss of benefits affect you?

By Sue Hayward, Oct 6, 2010

What do the child benefit cuts mean for you? Around one million families will be out of pocket when their child benefit is ...

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Child benefit cuts - outrage from middle classes

By Kelly Rose Bradford, Oct 5, 2010

Thousands of middle class families have flooded internet message boards with complaints about plans to strip child benefits ...

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