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Benefit recipients could lose a combined £10 billion by 2016, the Chancellor announced in today's Budget.
21 March 2012
Pensioners were the big losers from today's Budget, with the news 4.4 million will pay more tax from April 2013, at an average loss of £83 each per year. This has been dubbed the new 'Granny Tax'.
21 March 2012
Hundreds of thousands of benefits recipients will see a dramatic fall or even an end to their tax credits under a raft of reforms next month.
13 March 2012
About a million letters with wrong information on child tax credits entitlement have been sent out by tax officials.
9 March 2012
The UK's unemployment rate has reached a 16-year high after another rise in the jobless total.
15 February 2012
14 February 2012
Couples could be forced to live apart by the Government's benefit cap, an economic think-tank is warning.
3 February 2012
The Government insists it will go ahead with its plans to cap benefits, despite losing a vote on the issue in the House of Lords on Monday.
24 January 2012
Chancellor George Osborne announced he will uprate some working age state benefits by the planned 5.2%, in line with September's Consumer Prices Index (CPI) inflation figure.
29 November 2011
The Government could be about to renege on plans to increase some state benefit payments in line with September's inflation rate.
18 November 2011
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