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The latest row over welfare cuts has focussed attention on the merits and limitations of the tax credits system which Gordon Brown put in place . Currently tax credits cover up to of childcare costs for children in working families. However, many low-income working families can get up to of their. If cuts are desired in social security spending, then freezing the value of benefits and tax credits shares the pain over a large number of households.

Familes who receive tax credits to supplement their income could find themselves more than £0a year worse off following cuts to the . Learn how to cut your outgoings with our video guide and comprehensive list of useful money-saving ideas.

Peers vote to block cuts unless the Tories offer full compensation to the low-paid for at least three years. There is no one cut -off point. Child Tax Credit and Working Tax Credit elements are added together if you are eligible for both. The elements are: Family element. The planned cuts had been widely criticised and were rejected by the . Even when combined with the welcome increase in . Agnes Norris Keiller is a research economist at the Institute for Fiscal Studies and works in the Income, Work and Welfare sector.

British people tend to say the proposed tax credit cuts are unfair and will make large groups of working people worse off – but many still say . From today (April 6), many families will be worse off as the new wave of benefit cuts are implemented.

Although the Tories have said they will . While critics argue that the cuts to tax credits. The government has faced growing criticism over its plans to reform the current tax credits system. On Monday Labour and Liberal Democrat peers in the House of Lords could trigger a constitutional clash by supporting amendments requiring . George Osborne has scrapped a big part of his tax credit cuts in a radical U-turn as part of his Autumn Statement. But his claims, widely . When is it coming in? This one comes in from today.

Nationally this will cutback on £350m by . If these planned cuts were fully in place now, nearly million working households with children on tax credits would be an average of £5a . Tax credits are payments from the government. We talk a taxing week for the Tories and the women in rock and roll. Anoosh Chakelian, Stephen Bush, George . SIMON LAMBERT: Hacking back tax relief would mean an even worse deal between the generations on pensions. By Simon Lambert for . Increases to the income tax personal allowance have taken millions out.

VAT and child tax credits , changes have led to “significant reductions . Firstly, there will be a big cut in tax credits.

Our benefits system is clearly .