Sentences with phrase «test child benefit»

Most controversially of all, if the government believes that working families should keep more of their earnings (to spend more effectively than government can) then why means - test child benefit - the only remaining recognition in the tax system of the cost of raising a family - in order to preserve free bus rides and winter fuel payments to well - off over 60s?

Mr Osborne said he did not want to means - test child benefit because it would make the system too complicated.

The Financial Times suggested that in order to find additional cuts of # 30 - 40bn, the incoming government might have to cut public sector pay by 5 per cent, freeze benefits for a year, means - test child benefit, abolish winter fuel payments, and cut free TV licences and bus passes.

Or to means test child benefit, rather than giving «generous subsidies» to well off families?

«At the time, people looked at our plan for more generous and means - tested child benefits, tax increases for the rich and tax cuts for the middle class as a bit of a curiosity,» he said, according to a copy of his remarks.

It is depressing — if predictable — that resistance to means - testing child benefit is greatest among those who need it least.

At his first Prime Minister's Questions on 13 October 2010, he raised questions about the government's announced removal of a non-means tested child benefit.

The document set out # 8 billion of savings and included proposals to limit child benefit and child tax credits to a family's first two children, as well as means - testing child benefit.

Not exact matches

Besides, most child - care benefits in Canada are already means - tested, including municipally and provincially run child - care subsidy systems, as well as the federal government's Universal Child Care Benchild - care benefits in Canada are already means - tested, including municipally and provincially run child - care subsidy systems, as well as the federal government's Universal Child Care Benchild - care subsidy systems, as well as the federal government's Universal Child Care BenChild Care Benefit.

First, there has been the proposed creation of the income - tested Canada Child Benefit and the cut in the middle tax rate from 22 % to 20.5 %.

The new Canada Child Benefit (CCB) unveiled in the 2016 federal Budget has been widely supported by progressives and anti poverty activists who have long favoured the expansion of income tested child tax creChild Benefit (CCB) unveiled in the 2016 federal Budget has been widely supported by progressives and anti poverty activists who have long favoured the expansion of income tested child tax crechild tax credits.

Yet low income lines and family income tested programs such as the Guaranteed Income Supplement and child tax benefits do assume couples share income with each other.

I am (a) a delusional schizophrenic; (b) a naïve child, too young to know that that is silly (c) an ignorant farmer from Sudan who never had the benefit of even a fifth grade education; or (d) your average Christian Millions and millions of Catholics believe that bread and wine turns into the actual flesh and blood of a dead Jew from 2,000 years ago because: (a) there are obvious visible changes in the condiments after the Catholic priest does his hocus pocus; (b) tests have confirmed a divine presence in the bread and wine; (c) now and then their god shows up and confirms this story; or (d) their religious convictions tell them to blindly accept this completely fvcking absurd nonsense.

Learning to relax has many benefits from easing your child into sleep, to learning how to calm down before a test, to knowing how to soothe himself when he's upset.

To see if your gifted child could benefit from some summer programming, ask the school district if they'd be willing to test your child with the end - of - the - year performance exams for the year your child is skipping.

However, as we often do these very same tests on children, even small babies, and the potential loss of benefits if the mother stops breastfeeding are considerable, the mother should, in my opinion, continue breastfeeding.

But with increasing dissatisfaction over the high - stakes testing currently consuming mainstream education; the growing recognition of the many benefits a child receives through experiences with art, movement, and nature; a concern over a reliance on technology by younger and younger students; and the news that leaders in the high - tech industry are touting the lifelong benefits of low - tech Waldorf schools in educating their own children, more and more parents and educators are taking a closer look at the Waldorf approach and what it has to offer.

The benefits continued years later; researchers ran cognitive tests in the older children and found «increased language performance, visual reception and motor control performance.»

However, as we often do these very same tests on children, even small babies, and the potential loss of benefits if the mother stops breastfeeding are considerable, the mother should continue breastfeeding.

Millions of children have already benefited from this time - tested program!

All of the toys in this jumper have passed the test of the Institute of Child Development, so you are ensured about its safety and benefits toward the development of your infant.

But there's also a secondary benefit: If you find out that your child is worried about basketball tryouts or an upcoming science test, you can be sensitive to that area and offer more encouragement — and devote more time to helping him practice or study.

Welfare reforms are labours, we know Ms Cooper stated she was looking at child benefits but it would cost to much, in other words she was going to means test.

It replaces personal tax allowances, and most means - tested benefits including jobseeker's allowance, child benefit, the basic state pension and tax credits.

To reduce the workload of the new child support body, estranged couples on means - tested benefits would no longer be obliged to use its services, and they would be offered advice to help them find a voluntary solution.

If we are serious about hitting the 2002 child poverty target, and we reject means - testing, what does that mean for child benefit?

If child benefit is means - tested, it brands the family that receives it as poor.

It's precisely because child benefit is universal and not means - tested that it lays down a marker of mutuality in society that has a value that must not be sacrificed.

• What I've picked up from the Liberal Democrat conference so far is that Nick Clegg wants to cut the pay of classroom assistants, home helps, lollipop men and women and other low - paid public sector workers, to means test middle - class mums to decide whether they deserve child benefit, and to keep tuition fees.

Journalist Angela Epstein defends her view that child benefit should not be means tested.

It's often accompanied by a preoccupation with the position of one - earner couples within the tax and benefit system, and a certain sympathy for universalism and hostility to means - testing: hence the Daily Telegraph and Daily Mail's hostility to George Osborne's treatment of child benefit.

Require «able - bodied» Medicaid enrollees to pay child support and participate in child - paternity testing or face losing benefits.

David Cameron's pledges in the election, No. 10 feels, rule out the full - scale assault on the principle of universality that the Lib Dems argued for, such as means testing benefits like child benefit to cut them back for better off families.

, free bus passes, eye tests, child benefit (take it away from top - rate taxpayers?)

Basic pensions, long squeezed by successive governments, were treated well, but child benefit was frozen, housing and invalidity benefit battered, child trust funds abolished, tweaks and tougher testing imposed elsewhere.

Former leader Charles Kennedy rebelled against the leader's desire to scrap the unaffordable policy of scrapping tuition fees and Steve Webb MP rebelled against the suggestion that child benefit might be means - tested.

Similarly, child benefit should be means - tested, and the savings applied to a government matching programme for child trust funds for the lowest income groups.

The budget report said the extra funding for the means - tested benefit was «valuable support to families with children».

The method must now be tested on larger animals before it can be tried in humans, but the hope is that tissue - engineered repairs for congenital diaphragm malformations will be at least as effective as current surgical options with the added benefit of growing with children throughout their lives.

That's according to William Neal of West Virginia University in Morgantown, and colleagues, who say that current methods of only testing children if high cholesterol runs in the family misses a third of those who would benefit from treatment.

The new research builds on two previous studies that found the two programs benefitted children in early elementary school, boosting third - grade reading and math - test scores and reducing third - grade special education placements.

The study also found that children with certain physical anomalies were more likely to have genetic mutations, findings that may help identify children who could benefit most from genetic testing.

«Newer genetic testing methods may provide benefit for children with suspected autism.»

Moreover, we can now do a simple blood test to see which children in the family are at risk of cancer and may benefit from cancer screening, and which have not inherited the mutation and so are not at increased risk of cancer.»

The consensus of the committee was that well - designed and implemented assessment can actually benefit children, but flawed testing can result in harm, Snow said.

Local parents of elementary - age kids have set out to make Hogg a school they and their neighbors want to send their kids to, which means higher test scores, tighter discipline, and a college - prep curriculum - changes they believe will benefit all children, not just their own.

CAMBRIDGE, MA — An analysis of a new report by a committee of the National Research Council (NRC), the research arm of the National Academy of Sciences, shows that average student gains from the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) test - based accountability measures would yield, over the next 80 years, a national economic benefit of approximately $ 14 trillion.

These experiments may not yield immediate benefits in terms of increased test scores, but they might serve the needs of individual children and help us find promising breakthroughs that could someday enjoy mass appeal and application.

So they see virtually no benefit from test - based reforms and see significant impingement on control over their child's education.

He wants to defend the practices that he thinks benefit children, including the practice of closing schools of choice with low test scores.