Petition Stop the forthcoming cuts in child benefit

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Next April any family earning £40000 will lose it's right to child benefit. This represents a 7% cut in net income. A family with two children will lose £250 per month.

This will cause substantial hardship to the families concerned, is a huge drop in personal income and will cause suffering to the children of the UK. This Government is sending out an significant anti family message - please sign to help stop this.

This petition is closed This petition ran for 6 months

19 signatures

Progress of the petition towards its next target: 19 of 10,000 signatures required to get a government response

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Date closed 4 January 2013
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