Child poverty campaigners blast government for reneging on tax credit promise
Janaki Mahadevan
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
The government will not go ahead with plans to raise child tax credit above the rate of inflation, Chancellor George Osborne has announced, leading to accusations that the government has abandoned its pledge to extinguish child poverty.
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