Fears 'mummy tax' will hit Gloucester mums
A 'mummy tax' will hit Gloucester mums, a leading councillor has warned.
That's the view of Labour's Kate Haigh who is calling on Gloucester City Council to warn prime minister David Cameron about the effects of new benefit changes on hard-hit families.
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Cllr Kate Haigh fears the 'mummy tax'
The Welfare Benefits Up-rating Bill will cap benefit rises at one per cent a year until 2016.
Around 340,000 women claim either statutory maternity pay or maternity allowance every year.
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Until now their benefits have gone up in line with inflation, which currently stands at 2.7 per cent.
But from next month new mothers' benefits will go up by just one per cent every year as part of a three-year cap on welfare increases.
So by 2015 critics have calculated the benefits will be cut by £180 because they will not increase by as much as the cost of living will.
Kate Haigh (L, Matson and Robinswood) said: "We think it is wrong that mothers who are struggling are having their benefits cuts while millionaires enjoy tax cuts thanks to this Government.
"We should all be paying tax according to our ability to pay.
"But these latest changes will badly affect mothers who are already struggling to make ends meet."
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4 Comments
by tishwash
Wednesday, March 20 2013, 8:05AM
“Labour blame conservatives, but wasn't it labour that ruined the economy (and have done a number of times in the past), we can't sustain giving more and more money away.
Public servants have had their pay frozen, not even the 1%”
by TheNub
Tuesday, March 19 2013, 9:09AM
“hammer the rich leave the poor alone”
by RoadWombat
Tuesday, March 19 2013, 12:43AM
“Our welfare system is totally overbloated and needs to be cut down. People won't like it, but that's the way it is, I'm afraid. The piggy bank is empty.
Unfortunately, too many look upon welfare as a permanent freebie rather than what it should be (for all except, perhaps the severely disabled etc.): temporary emergency help to see them through a bad time until they can get themselves on their feet again.
Try living in just about any other country. You won't get Molly-coddled the way you are here!”
by Bonkim2003
Monday, March 18 2013, 6:04PM
“........."in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes." — Benjamin Franklin 1789”