Angela Rayner has encouraged Rachel Reeves to strip middle-class families of child benefits payments, it has been claimed. The Labour Deputy Prime Minister urged the treasury to ‘claw back’ the benefit from families where the highest earner’s annual earnings were between £50,000 and £80,000, The Telegraph first reported. If taken forward, the decision would undo an announcement by the Tories in March 2024 thatContinue reading “Rayner Urges Rachel Reeves To Strip Middle-Class Child Benefits”
Tag Archives: Child Benefit
School Meals Should Be Free For All Students
It’s absurd to charge kids to eat at a place where they must be all day, according to the law. The law in the United Kingdom requires parents to make sure their children obtain a full-time education, which usually entails going to school. Parents are legally required to ensure their child obtains a quality education,Continue reading “School Meals Should Be Free For All Students”
BENEFITS FOR CHILDREN
Based on the child credit component of the previously rejected Health Government’s Tax Credit proposal, which would have abolished PAYE and integrated tax and benefits, Barbara Castle established Child Benefit in 1975. It has long been a necessary component of our lives, and everyone has the right to it—even those with higher incomes than othersContinue reading “BENEFITS FOR CHILDREN”
STUNT POLICY
The benefit cap is being presented across the nation, apparently reinstalling fairness to the welfare state, but of course it’s not in fact about rebuilding fairness to the welfare state, it’s about designing a cosmetic idea of it being a fair bureaucracy. The benefit cap presently binds the total sum of money obtainable to social securityContinue reading “STUNT POLICY”
THE MONTHLY MOSQUITO 