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1 May 2012
Figures released by the Treasury this afternoon reveal that more than 200,000 couples with 449,000 children have lost up to £73 a week in Working Tax Credit because they have been unable to increase the number of hours they work.
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24 April 2012
In her keynote speech to Usdaw's Annual Delegate Meeting (ADM) in Blackpool, Labour's Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper slammed the Tory-led Coalition's attack on the incomes of Usdaw members and their families.
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2 April 2012
The shopworkers’ Union Usdaw has called on the Government to immediately release figures for the number of couples with children who are about to lose all of their Working Tax Credit from this Friday 6 April.
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21 March 2012
Responding to today's Budget statement by Tory Chancellor George Osborne, John Hannett, General Secretary of the shopworkers' Union Usdaw said:
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21 March 2012
Usdaw activists will be out in force today campaigning to alert parents and carers to the changes the Government is making to tax credits and other benefits.
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20 March 2012
New figures released today by the shopworkers’ Union Usdaw and the Child Poverty Action Group reveal that two thirds of the families about to lose all of their Working Tax Credit because they cannot find enough hours of work are already living in poverty.
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14 March 2012
The shopworkers' Union Usdaw says today's rise in unemployment shows why this is the wrong time for the Government to make changes to Working Tax Credits.
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7 March 2012
Labour leader Ed Miliband used today's Prime Minister's Questions to challenge David Cameron to say what advice he would give to the thousands of couples on low incomes who will lose nearly £4,000 when cuts to Working Tax Credits are introduced in April.
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6 March 2012
A group of national family welfare organisations and the shopworkers Union, Usdaw, has written to the Prime Minster and Chancellor asking them to meet with working families who stand to lose close to £4,000 next month when rules change for tax credits.
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29 November 2011
The shopworkers' Union Usdaw has slammed George Osborne's decision to abandon the increase in Child Tax Credit and to freeze all the major elements of Working Tax Credit.