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The benefits system is changing – are you prepared?
This month has seen the start of some of the biggest ever changes to the welfare benefits system, which will begin to roll out nationally over the next few years. To coincide with its Benefits Awareness Month campaign, which is running throughout April, the charity Turn2us outlines how these changes might impact families, and offers…
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Universal Credit & Benefits Cap: how will they affect you?
Over the next few years, there are big changes set to take place to the welfare system in the UK. The changes will start in April this year with the introduction of the Benefits Cap, a new threshold which will affect larger families in particular, as well as changes to Housing Benefit, and the implementation…
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Increase in Parental Leave entitlement from 13 to 18 weeks
The idea of a legal right for employees to take 18 weeks parental leave is probably quite an alarming one for most employers. We look below at what this right really means and why it may not be such a worry for employers in practice… What has changed? From Friday 8 March 2013, parents will…
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Childcare Costs – How You Can Save Money
The New Year of 2013 has certainly hit parents with changes to child benefit, childcare costs and tax cuts for working parents. With the government expected to release detailed proposals as a result of the Childcare Commission next week, Child Benefit being cut for higher rate tax payers and childcare costs being at the forefront…
Child Benefit change: one month to go
The child benefit changes are approaching fast and with Christmas perhaps distracting parents you may want to take a few minutes to read your letter and make sure you make your decisions soon. High-earning child benefit recipients have a month to decide whether to stop receiving the benefit or to pay a charge on it…
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Turn2us for help with back to school budgets
When the children go back to school, the money seems to go flying out of the window: school uniform, after school clubs, sports kits, school trips…the list is endless and never seems to get any shorter. As cuts, salary freezes and childcare fees continue to wipe out family earnings, UK charity Turn2us is urging parents…
The benefits of baby carrying
Most parents own some form of baby carrier, yet despite this more than eight in ten parents in the UK transport their babies by pushchair rather than carrying them. But what exactly does baby carrying involve and should we do more of it? We talk to chiropractor, Julian Keel (pictured right carrying his 7 month old daughter in a…
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