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The government says it wants to expand a new childcare tax credit scheme to include parents who stay at home because they are carers.
A 12-week consultation on the system - which was first announced in March's Budget - is expected to start later.
Families with two working parents on less than ?150,000 each would be able to claim up to ?1,200 a year per child.
The government has said the scheme will help 2.5m families, but Labour says families have seen a cut in support.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-23565469
?150k a year seems a very high threshold to qualify for benefits to me, especially at a time when many disabled people are seeing their income cut to the point they cannot afford to live due to the bedroom tax
A 12-week consultation on the system - which was first announced in March's Budget - is expected to start later.
Families with two working parents on less than ?150,000 each would be able to claim up to ?1,200 a year per child.
The government has said the scheme will help 2.5m families, but Labour says families have seen a cut in support.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-23565469
?150k a year seems a very high threshold to qualify for benefits to me, especially at a time when many disabled people are seeing their income cut to the point they cannot afford to live due to the bedroom tax