The Chancellor Jeremy Hunt is considering whether to extend child benefit to hundreds of thousands more families in his spring budget – to give direct support to middle income families.
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According to reports – he’s looking into raising the £50,000 income threshold above which the payment starts being tapered out.
We spoke to the associate director at the Insitute for Fiscal Studies Tom Waters.
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