Sentences with phrase «child benefits cap»

Even worse, of course, is the two - child benefits cap.

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Other measures include: • remove rule limiting Child Tax Credit (CTC) to one claimant per household (to allow two or more families sharing a house to claim the CTC); • repeal $ 10,000 cap on medical expense tax credit claims made on medical costs incurred for an eligible dependent; • easier access to funds in Registered Disability Savings Plans for beneficiaries with shortened life spans; • improved Employment Insurance benefits to parents of gravely ill, murdered, or missing children; and • enhanced ability to make transfers between individual RESPs, and better access to RESP funds for post-secondary students studying outside Canada.

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This rhetoric has been used to justify devastating welfare cuts - including caps on in - work benefits and cuts to disability support - which in turn have led to a rise in food bank use, homelessness, and child poverty.

Despite government claims it is an «incentive to work», the benefit cap will actually make the problems poverty and inequality - especially for children - much worse.

They show that 63,000 families have had their benefits capped to date, and the people most likely to be affected remain those with a large number of children and those with high housing costs.

As the Government's welfare bill is in the Commons today, Harriet Harman has published a reasoned amendment laying out the bits of the bill Labour agrees with (the benefits cap, turning student maintenance grants to loans) and the bits it does not agree with (abolishing child poverty targets).

Cuts to the overall benefit cap see surge in numbers affected with fears over impact on tenants and children

But there is also widespread support among Labour voters for limiting child tax credits in future to two children per family, and lowering the cap on total benefits to # 23,000 a year in London and # 20,000 a year outside London.

Labour will not contest the Government's latest round of welfare cuts, including the lower household benefits cap and new limits on child tax credits, the party's acting leader has said.

Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne introduces a raft of cuts to welfare spending in yesterday's emergency budget, including the capping of housing allowances and freezing of child benefits, in a bid to save # 11bn over the next four years.

Increases in child benefit will be capped at one percent until 2017, if Labour win the next general election.

The major policy announcement on free school meals was the obvious move in this direction — as well as being a sop to middle class voters who lost out after cuts to child benefit — but Nick Clegg's speech is full of references to policies which help in day - to - day life: the pupil premium, flexible parental leave, free childcare, a cap on social care costs.

Harriet Harman's announcement on the Sunday politics yesterday, that Labour would not be voting against the welfare bill, nor would they oppose child tax credit cuts or the Tories new benefits cap, has rightly drawn condemnation from different sections of the Party, and now both Yvette Cooper and Andy Burnham have joined Jeremy Corbyn (who -LSB-...]

Harriet Harman's announcement on the Sunday politics yesterday, that Labour would not be voting against the welfare bill, nor would they oppose child tax credit cuts or the Tories new benefits cap, has rightly drawn condemnation from different sections of the Party, and now both Yvette Cooper and Andy Burnham have joined Jeremy Corbyn (who launched a petition last night) calling for opposition to the child tax credit cut.

It is worth remembering, that both Yvette Cooper and Andy Burnham voted in favour of the initial household benefit cap in 2014, despite Save the Children's report that the policy would push 345,000 children into Children's report that the policy would push 345,000 children into children into poverty.

A child - related benefits cap could become an important election issue.

He told Andrew Marr that everybody in Britain should made decisions about family size based on what they could afford and that a cap on child - related benefits might encourage thoughtful decision - making.

Ed Balls told the party conference in Manchester about plans including cutting the winter fuel allowance for wealthier pensioners, keeping the the benefit cap, child benefit rising by 1 %, bringing back a 50p tax rate, and introducing a mansion tax.

A minister for 12 years, Yvette Cooper's policies include universal free child care, a cut in corporation tax as well as a benefits cap.

Different rules apply to the transfer balance cap for child recipients of a death benefit income stream.

Falco's Bottle Ax is ready to battle against caps, to benefit Child's Play, an organization that brings toys to children in hospitals.

Overview On 22 June 2017, the High Court (Collins J) ruled that the application of the «Benefit Cap» to lone parents with children under two years old is unlawful because it -LSB-...]

On 22 June 2017, the High Court (Collins J) ruled that the application of the «Benefit Cap» to lone parents with children under two years old is unlawful because it discriminates, without justification, against both those parents and their children.

Mr. MacLean succeeded in having the court use all of the companies pre-tax profits for the SSAG calculation based on BCCA law from the cases of Klukas and Teja, defeating the husband's spousal support claim that double dipping applied to BC spousal support and a lower BC spousal and BC child support payment should thus be paid, blocking any $ 350,000 cap argument where BC spousal support is not increased on high salaries above $ 350,000 per year and finally in having the child support portion of the order made retroactive so a large lump sum payment was received for the children's benefit.

The benefits system is getting harsher, with the benefit cap and sanctions causing some kinship care households to even lose their homes, just because they did right by the child.»

• ensuring they are not adversely affected by the rules applying to «spare room subsidy» and the benefits cap, which currently works against potential family and friends carers taking on sibling groups; and • ensuring that all family and friends care households are exempt from the limiting of child tax credit to two children and are not penalised by changes to pension credit.

Many are living in severe financial hardship and the situation is getting significantly worse as a result of local authority cuts and welfare reforms, with some hit by the benefit cap because they have taken on more than one child.

The proposed reduction in the benefit cap will mean some are forced into severe debt and have to move home, away from their own children's school and support network.

The report also draws attention to some of the potentially dangerous unintended consequences of limiting child tax credits and capping benefits.