Sentences with phrase «family cap on benefits»

Most Corbyn supporters reject the # 26,000 - per - family cap on benefits.

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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.

The issue figures to feature prominently in the next federal election, with Liberal Leader Stà © phane Dion arguing the benefits of a carbon tax, while NDP Leader Jack Layton makes the case that cap - and - trade would do a better job of putting the costs on big polluters rather than on low - income families.

«Nor was there any relief for low and middle earners who, after years of falling living standards, have no spare cash to take advantage of the help for savers, and who now face year on year cuts in benefits for working families as the welfare cap bites.

She accepts George Osborne's budget surplus idea and has adopted a clear line on benefit cuts, supporting the Tories» proposed cap of # 23,000 per family.

As POLITICO New York has previously reported, the amendments increase the benefit offered under the governor's paid family leave proposal to the state's lowest paid workers, but keep in place a cap on benefits of just over $ 500 per week.

On 4 October 2010, in a speech at the Conservative conference in Birmingham, Osborne announced a cap on the overall amount of benefits a family can receive from the state, estimated to be around # 500 a week from 201On 4 October 2010, in a speech at the Conservative conference in Birmingham, Osborne announced a cap on the overall amount of benefits a family can receive from the state, estimated to be around # 500 a week from 201on the overall amount of benefits a family can receive from the state, estimated to be around # 500 a week from 2013.

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.

Combined with caps on housing benefit and significant hikes in social housing rents, poorer families could be chased out of more affluent areas.

«When you have insecure tenancies, huge cuts to council budgets and caps on housing benefit happening all at once, you form a brutal concoction which leaves thousands of families without a permanent home.

9.05 am: According to Lord German, a Lib Dem work and pensions spokesman in the Lords, the government may back down over plans to impose a # 26,000 cap on the benefits that a single family can receive every year.

The cap on benefits — likely to raise # 300m — is seen as a vote winner but prompted warnings from housing charities of an exodus of the poor from southern inner cities as the 50,000 affected families face benefit cuts worth an average of # 93 a week.

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.

The ministers say the new # 26,000 - a-year cap on household benefit claims has affected 33,000 families and encouraged up to 19,000 to return to work.

• 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.