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Tax credits
August 2024
‘Free money’: £4bn lost to fraud and error on flagship HMRC ‘innovation’ scheme
UK tax credits to promote research and development were claimed by a pub for changing its menus and by window cleaners for hanging their buckets
July 2024
Labour MP calls two-child benefit cap ‘heinous’ in latest call to scrap policy
Keir Starmer under pressure to scrap limit as more than dozen MPs thought to support king’s speech amendment
April 2024
Labour urged to end two-child benefits cap as research reveals policy pushing families into poverty
New data shows families with disabled children, and single parents with offspring under the age of three facing financial hardship
July 2023
There’s no point to Labour as a party if it won’t pay to pull children out of poverty
Owen Jones
What is the UK’s two-child benefit cap and how has it affected families?
May 2022
Cost of living: how the payments affect people in various scenarios
Halt shift to universal credit to protect vulnerable Britons, charities demand
September 2021
UK pensions shortfall is ‘tip of the iceberg’, says former minister
Steve Webb says IT and human errors are systemic and may also affect tax credits and universal credit
July 2021
Supreme court rejects challenge to universal credit ‘two-child limit’
April 2017 rule restricts child tax credit and universal credit to first two children, with exceptions
March 2020
Sunak launches third UK budget in nine days – and the most crucial
Latest emergency coronavirus package poses three huge questions: is it well targeted, is it enough and is it in time?
February 2020
Economics viewpoint
How poverty has become the scourge of those in work
Larry Elliott
Zero-hours contracts and under-employment have slowed UK pay rises while housing is too dear for the low paid
November 2019
Million universal credit households ‘do not get full entitlement’
End two-child benefits limit, say cross-party MPs
July 2019
Government urged to scrap 'nasty' two-child limit on benefits
Summer holidays: how to get help with the childcare costs
December 2018
Gordon Brown: I didn't think I'd see child poverty again in my lifetime
Ex-chancellor’s tax credits started to erase problem – but universal credit reverses trend
October 2018
Unlike the royals, the poor mustn’t be allowed to breed like rabbits
Kevin McKenna
Poorest families to lose out on £210 a year owing to benefits cap
August 2018
'No-frills' lifestyle out of reach of parents on minimum wage – study
Report shows £49 weekly shortfall for couple working full-time with two children
April 2018
High court rules in favour of carers over two-child benefits cap
Judge says government’s rules on exemptions are ‘in conflict with the purposes of the legislation’
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