Unfair changes to child benefit  

Labour has repeatedly warned about the unfairness and problems with David Cameron’s child benefit plans.  A two-earner family each earning £40,000 – a total of £80,000 – would keep their entire child benefit. But a single-earner family on £43,000 would lose it all from next year. Tough choices on tax, spending and pay do need to be made to get the deficit down. The government’s botched child benefit plan, as well as cuts to tax credits and childcare support for parents on low and middle incomes, is hitting families with children much harder than the banks. These changes are due to hit families in less than 12 months time. We need an urgent rethink on these and the Government’s wider plans to hit families with children hardest of all. ...