Benefits
"After much prevarication, government spokesmen have told us the 2020 targets still stand, including that irksome pledge to have fewer than 10 per cent of the nation's children living in households th
Spain partially nationalised banking giant Bankia SA after concerns about its real estate exposure in a scenario reminiscent of the Irish crisis following the 2008 implosion of Lehman Bros.
A London council is criticised after contacting housing associations in other parts of the country to see if they will take private tenants whose high rents are not covered by housing benefit.
Nearly a third of new mothers go into debt due to taking maternity leave, while one in 10 cuts short their time off to ease financial pressures, a survey suggests.
A government adviser recommends that parents of truants have their child benefit docked. Channel 4 News asks if the threat of fines for truancy actually works and speaks to a truant schoolgirl.
As George Osborne announces changes to child benefit, Channel 4 News explains what it means for you.
"Is a true Briton to have no privacy? Are the fruits of his labour and toil to be picked over, farthing by farthing, by the pimply minions of bureaucracy?"
Chancellor George Osborne cuts the 50p rate of tax to 45p from April 2013 and announces changes to his plans to withdraw child benefit from all 40p taxpayers.
An overhaul of the benefits system risks pushing 250,000 children into poverty, warns a leading children's charity. The changes could mean 150,000 working single mothers losing £68 a week.
Some couples will be hundreds of pounds better off if they quit their jobs and stay on benefits, Chris Grayling admits.
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