The simple answer to benefits and tax.

With benefits causing such a headache to administer and tax just as much of a problem, surely there must be an easier way about everything? The best alternative would be one that is fair across the board, was near impossible to cheat and could be administered with little effort. So why not throw away the [...]

You have to be honest to not get child benefit

As part of the Government’s cost cutting measures, honesty will be the key to the correct people receiving child benefit, in the face of huge fines for those that are not so honest. Because the new system of those families with a high rate income tax payer not receiving child benefit, the situation will arise [...]

Cold Weather Payments Could Be Slashed

Millions of pensioners could face a cut in one of their lucrative benefits if proposals go ahead to slash the Cold Weather Payments Benefit. Currently, this payment of £25 is paid to all pensioners when the temperature in their area drops below 0c for 7 days in the area in which they are living. Yesterday, [...]

Your Child Benefit Might Not Be As Safe As You Thought

The government announced earlier this week that from 2013 families where one or both parents are higher tax band payers will not be receiving child benefits. Original calculations in the press worked this out to be that anyone earning more than £43,875 per year would therefore become ineligible for this benefit. However, the government also [...]

Child Benefit Changes Are Causing Many Upset Families

Groups of mothers are in uproar that they are being targeted by the child benefit cuts, even though they are the ‘model family’. It is clear to see that a traditional family in which the father goes out to work and the mother stays at home to look after the family are the biggest losers [...]



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