Petition Apprenticeships; Stop loss of child related benefits for low income families.

The search for my future career has come to me and I was searching for options for my post 16 education. One option that came to mind was an apprenticeship. However, being from a low income family it soon became apparent that there were great financial implications rendering me unable to do one.

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Apprentices even though they are classed as in training they are no longer classed as 'dependants' for child tax credit and child benefit reasons thus leaving families a shortfall of in some cases upward of £80; a sum of which families below a certain income cannot afford to loose.

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16 signatures

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Date closed 26 August 2016
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