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Millions of people will be affected by tax and benefit changes coming into force on Friday – changes Labour has labelled a “tax bombshell”.
The limit at which child benefit will be scrapped for families has been increased to £50,000, Chancellor George Osborne announced today.
George Osborne is preparing to alter plans to strip some middle income families of child benefit ahead of a House of Commons debate on the issue.
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Aegon has published a guide to State bereavement payments that will be issued with all death claim packs.
Bereavement benefits need to be altered to better support those who have suffered the death of a loved one, government research has found.
Conservative MPs have threatened to strike down the Budget if the government does not reconsider child benefit reform.
Grieving clients could be missing out on thousands of pounds worth of state bereavement benefits, RGA has said.
Cirencester friendly has warned that the government’s continued welfare reforms prove relying solely the State for support is a “fool’s paradise” and urged the protection industry to push this point across.
The government looks set to force through its controversial welfare reforms without giving the House of Lords a chance to readdress the amendments it made.
The government’s proposed reforms to the child benefit system would create effects that are “bizarre and economically damaging”, the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) has said.
Government ministers will aim to overturn the exclusion of means-testing of cancer patients receiving Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) as the coalition’s government’s Welfare Reform Bill moves back to the House of Commons.
Businesses and government need to issue a “clear and consistent message from the top that work is good for you”, the co-author of the Sickness Absence Review has said.
The government will push ahead "in full" with plans to cap welfare payments for families despite a defeat in the House of Lords.
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