Why child benefit must be removed from the benefit cap
Sam Royston explains why child benefit must be removed from the government’s proposed benefits cap.
Sam Royston explains why child benefit must be removed from the government’s proposed benefits cap.
Alex Hern reveals star Tory Harriet Baldwin’s “questions” about whether poor parents ought to be punished for having too many children.
Conservative commentators are beginning to sense the unease over Tory policy on the ‘squeezed middle’, reports Liam Thompson.
Chancellor George Osborne’s other announcement to introduce a cap on benefits at £26,000 is even more unfair than the child benefit changes.
Sunder Katwala, general secretary of the Fabian Society, outlines ten policy headaches for David Cameron and George Osborne over the changes to Child Benefit.
In the long run, the cuts to Child Benefit announced today will hit the poorest hardest, as the principle of universal benefits is eroded, argues Nicola Smith.