Tax Credits

The most recent documents available on this subject are:

Benefits up-rating cap is unfair and a big political risk for the government, says TUC

Ahead of the Commons vote today (Tuesday) on capping the up-rating of welfare benefits, TUC General Secretary Frances O'Grady said:

8 January 2013
Support for benefit cuts dependent on ignorance, TUC-commissioned poll finds

Ministers cannot assume that voters will continue to back them in their plans to cap welfare benefit rises, according to a new poll commissioned by the TUC from YouGov and published today (Friday).

4 January 2013
Families could lose over £2,700 a year despite ‘no losers' welfare pledge

Low and middle income families will suffer annual benefit cuts of over £2,700 a year by 2013 despite the government's pledge that there are to be 'no losers' in the setting up of the new universal credit system, the TUC is warning today (Friday).

11 February 2011
Two thirds of welfare cuts will fall on working families

Nearly two thirds of the £15.9 billion of welfare and benefit cuts announced in the emergency budget and spending review will hit working families, undermining government claims that they are 'making work pay', the TUC reveals today (Monday).

1 November 2010
£30 child tax credit ‘increase' is a £1,500 loss for low income working families

Plans to increase child tax credit by £30 a year in 2011/12 will be dwarfed by childcare cuts of up to £30 a week - or £1,560 a year - according to plans announced in the Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR) today (Tuesday), says the TUC.

20 October 2010
Carers, widows, pensioners and jobless hit by Government's first stealth cut

Commenting on the latest inflation figures published today (Tuesday) by the Office for National Statistics, which show RPI inflation falling to 4.6 per cent in September, CPI remaining unchanged at 3.1 per cent and the Rossi index staying at 4.8 per ...

12 October 2010



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