Stop the government scrapping child tax benefit for a single income of a higher tax rate payer in the household
- Target:
- stop the government scrapping the child tax benefit for higher rate tax payers
- Region:
- United Kingdom
- Website:
- www.bbc.co.uk
Child benefit is to be axed for higher-rate taxpayers from 2013, ChancellorLabour said the benefit should remain universal and the families who wanted to "get on" were being penalised.
Mr Osborne also revealed the total state benefits one family can claim in future will be capped at about £26,000.
This will mean that no family on welfare will be better off than one earning an average income from work, the chancellor said.
He outlined the steps in a major speech in which he defended the government's austerity measures as cuts "not for their own sake" but savings "to secure our future".
About 7.7 million families with children currently get child benefit, costing about £12bn a year. George Osborne has announced.
sign our petition to stop the government scrapping child tax benefit for a single income of one person who earns 44,000. it unfairly hits single-earner families hardest, that it acts as a disincentive to earn more, that it breaches the principle of universal benefits, that it is an attack on the family, that it is a breach of Mr Osborne's promise last year to "preserve" child benefit.
anne.milton@btinternet.com MPguildford, contact your local mp and also write to them or email them
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The Stop the government scrapping child tax benefit for a single income of a higher tax rate payer in the household petition to stop the government scrapping the child tax benefit for higher rate tax payers was written by josephinetoms and is in the category Government at GoPetition.