At the moment, the Government's going to miss its target to halve child poverty by 2010 by some distance. As expected, Darling's trying to make up some of the ground. He's announced: a planned increase in child benefit to be brought forward to April 2009. And the child element of Child Tax Credit will increase to £50 a year.
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C Powell
March 12th, 2008 2:47pm Report this commentIf they'd really wanted to cut child poverty (BTW are there rich parents with poor children? Don't they mean poor families?) they wouldn't have abolished the 10% starting rate of tax. Those on low incomes face a 100% increase in tax. Utterly disgraceful.
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