This article is reporting that the coming changes to Working Tax Credit changes are "unfair" :

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... -dole.html

This sentence sets the outrage:

This sentence explains the current situation:

This sentence mentions the changes from April:


HMRC explains the changes from April:
http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/taxcreditsbudget/index.htm#2


Note: The changes to the Tax Credit system ONLY apply to couples, NOT SINGLES.

Is it really too much to expect the combined working hours of TWO people to be at least 24 hours per week in order to qualify for tax-payers' handouts?

Is it really unreasonable that if only one person of the couple is working that they should work for at least 24 hours per week in order to qulaify?

Is it really as “unfair” as Yvette Cooper claims it is?

Well its about time child benefit , was capped at two children , I an see no reason , why it not

Make it three and I would agree. If it is only paid for two then you risk a declining population and need even more immigrants ! Quebec even increased the baby bonus rate for third and subsequent children to increase their birth rate yet still need immigrants to keep the population stable.

Like the USA system where many states welfare is only paid for the children in the family after 9 months on benefits; any more and they are not covered by the working taxpayers !

Let's not even look at the Chinese legal one child limit system where they have a diminishing and aging work force with an out of whack ratio of male to female babies surviving. Visited there just before the olympics and our male guides were resigned to bachelorhood although being among the highly educated and high earning men.