Tax Credits

A good deal of money?

Now that some actual data has been released about the number of recent arrivals from elsewhere in the EU claiming tax credits, and we know something too about the deal on the renegotiating table, there’s the basis for very rough estimation of what money might be saved by the proposed…

Details, details …

Whatever the actual scope of the restrictions proposed on in-work benefits, and whether they now apply only to some tax credits (rather than the manifesto-promised child benefit too), it’s interesting to look at what the draft Decision says about the circumstances in which such restrictions…

Not ‘who benefits?’ but ‘what benefits?’

In promising changes to the UK’s relationship with the EU, the Conservative Manifesto 2015 talked about tax credits and child benefit and access to social housing.

We will insist that EU migrants who want to claim tax credits and…

The Negotiation — benefits for migrants

The Prime Minister made clear in his speech on EU renegotiation today that he wishes to

“reduce the current very high level of migration from within the EU into the UK “