#childbenefit — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #childbenefit, aggregated by home.social.
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Campaign 2000’s new report says children under 18 are still the age group in Canada most likely to fall into poverty. Despite good programs such as the Canada Child Benefit, the child poverty rate in Canada has doubled since 2020. #childbenefit
https://rabble.ca/economy/canadas-government-gets-a-failing-grade-on-child-poverty/
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DWP tells pensioners 'check' as thousands owed average £8,300
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.mirror.co.uk/money/dwp-tells-pensioners-check-thousands-36617036
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'I came into Parliament to dismantle poverty - we need a new government ministry'
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10 Reform policies that would clobber Brits - from trade war to online safety and net zero
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Family to get £2,770 a month in benefits after Budget announcement
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.mirror.co.uk/money/family-2770-month-benefits-after-36314386
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Instead of this kafkaesque dumb f*ckwittery that harms those relying on child benefits…could we just tax the rich?
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"The government is scrapping a planned change to #ChildBenefit rules that would have allowed more parents to claim the payment."
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It looks like Keir Starmer is hinting that he will accelerate consideration of scrapping the two child benefit cap.... presumably with his eye on public & political opinion, he's coming round to the idea that #2.5bn on getting rid of the cap (and effective improving benefits for larger families) will be cost effective politically....
Certainly, if he wants to demonstrate quickly how Labour *is* different from the Tories this would be the policy change to do it!
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CW: ukpol economics child-benefit cap
Apparently Labour are saying they need to get some economic growth in order to fund removing the child-benefit cap?
If they are saying that and meaning it and not just trying to manipulate voters, they do not understand economics in the tiniest little bit.
There are thousands of kids living in basically poverty conditions. They are not contributing to the economy, they have no money.
If they were to have some money, they would spend that money on good and services.
Those sales would be taxed! The wages of the extra staff employed to meet the increased demand would be taxed! The savings of the rich people who end up with that money in their off-shore accounts can be taxed!
Ending that benefit cap is how you get the growth! You give the poor money, they spend it, investment comes to meet the demand.
What is the actual plan otherwise? Let everyone stay poor so that there's no economic demand an so no private investment?
The idea that you can cut your way to growth is utterly deranged, the kind of backwards economic thinking you expect from a Conservative.
I do hope they're just lying to get elected again rather than actually believe the lunacy they say on the TV.
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Jeremy Hunt urged to reform 'unfair stealth tax' that hits struggling families in budget
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/jeremy-hunt-urged-to-reform-unfair-stealth-tax-that-hits-struggling-families-in-budget/ar-BB1iO3ni?cvid=700a6c0c2c784293d317d6b321402aff&ocid=winp2fptaskbarhover&ei=7#Hunt
#Tax
#ICAS
#InstituteOfCharteredAccountantsOfScotland
#HighIncomeChildBenefitCharge
#ChildBenefit
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Normal Island News
Tories furiously insist they will starve more children than Labour would
And they have the track record to back this up
Following yesterday’s earth-shattering announcement that Labour would starve children by keeping the two-child welfare cap (which even had me cheering), the Tories have furiously insisted they are the real child starvers.#NormalIslandNews #ChildBenefit #ToryLies #LabourUTurn #sunak #starmer #poverty
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The news in tweets: Tuesday, July 18, 2023 | Vox Political
https://voxpoliticalonline.com/2023/07/18/the-news-in-tweets-tuesday-july-18-2023/#JamieDriscoll #crowdfund #campaign #newmodel #politics #MishRahman #Labour #racist #racism #KeirStarmer #childbenefit #SirKidStarver
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Keir Starmer suggests two-child benefit cap row is example of what taking ‘tough choices’ involves – UK politics live
Labour leader says party is having row about ‘touch choices’ at the moment during speech at thinktank run by Tony Blair
They did not disagree on much, but to describe it as a love-in does not quite capture the uneasy hierachy jostling that was going on.#Starmer #Blair #ChildBenefit #fascism #LabourRightWingCoup #LabourFiles #RedTories #politics
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Labour backlash against #Starmer over #childbenefit U-turn
How much more backtracking and aligning with nasty Tory policy does it take for enough people to recognise that Starmer and his right wing zealots are destroying the Labour Party.
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"Case for abolishing two-child benefit cap ‘overwhelming’, says report"
A further reminder, if such be needed, that Starmer's Labour is on the wrong side of reality.
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The pain of #openSource is when someone you don't like uses your software.
Population Matters has a horrible history - from pandering to flight-addicted rich people by offering to offset the emissions of one flight by helping ensure one Kenyan is not born though its "PopOffsets" programme (hardly #climatejustice ) to more recently campaigning to remove #uk #childBenefit from families with more than 2 children.
