Child Benefit and Child Tax Credit

(asked on 1st November 2017) - View Source

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 20 April 2017 to Question 70847, whether his Department has made an interim assessment of the effects of the freeze on child benefit and child tax credit.


Answered by
Elizabeth Truss Portrait
Elizabeth Truss
This question was answered on 6th November 2017

The government has considered the impact on all benefits and tax credits rates that are included in the four year uprating freeze. The government has published an impact assessment at:

http://www.parliament.uk/documents/impact-assessments/IA15-006C.pdf

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