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credits
The
introduction of the new tax credits on 6th April 2003 marked a fundamental
change to the provision of welfare benefits and tax credits. The
Child Poverty Action Group is providing advice and monitoring the
impact of this major change.
If you are in Scotland, see also the CPAG in Scotland Tax Credits Project page.
Tax
credits factsheets
Tax
credits publications
A
credit to the Revenue?
(Poverty 123, Winter 2006)
 Benefits
and tax credits poster 2008/2009
The latest annual edition of this colourful
wallchart gives you easy access to this year’s benefit and
tax credit rates.
April 2008 Published by CPAG/Citizens
Advice £5.00
Order a printed
copy
or
Download
a 168 KB pdf version of the poster.
 Welfare
Benefits & Tax Credits Handbook 2008/2009
10th edition
The new Handbook gives you comprehensive coverage of all welfare benefits
and tax credits. This fully revised and updated edition includes advance information on the new employment and support allowance (ESA), due to be introduced in October 2008. It also has the latest information on benefit and tax credit overpayments, the right to reside test and the new local housing allowance for housing benefit.
There is full
coverage of: income support; JSA and work tests; housing benefit;
the social fund; incapacity benefit and the personal capability
assessment; pensions; benefits for maternity, paternity, adoption,
disability, children, retirement etc. Also: administration; contributions
and earnings; rules for special groups, including 16/17 year olds,
students and people from abroad; backdating; overpayments; fraud;
challenging decisions, including appeals.
Accessible and
authoritative, the annually-updated Handbook is fully
indexed and cross-referenced to law, regulations and official guidance,
and also to court and commissioners' decisions. Information is fully
cross-referenced between the social security and tax systems.
April 2008 978 1 906076 12 2 £36.00
(£8.50 post free for individual benefit claimants – direct
from CPAG)
Tax credits e-bulletin from CPAG (England and Wales)
You can read recent editions by following the links below, or sign up to the tax credits e-bulletin here. By subscribing you also become a member of the tax credits monitoring network. This is a network of advisers interested in providing feedback to CPAG on tax credits issues. Please note, we will not pass your details to anyone outside CPAG, and you can unsubscribe from the e-bulletin at any time.
Tax credits e-bulletin from CPAG in Scotland
You can read recent editions by following the links below, or sign up to the tax credits e-bulletin here. Please note, we will not pass your details to anyone outside CPAG, and you can unsubscribe from the e-bulletin at any time.
Tax
credits training and conferences
Tax
credits monitoring network
This is a network of organisations interested in providing feedback to CPAG on tax credits issues as and when they arise. CPAG use the feedback to lobby for change to improve the system, to highlight good as well as bad practice, to inform policy work and to identify possible areas for research and test cases. CPAG will seek to raise areas of concern through liaison with relevant decision makers and in our policy responses. Find out how to join the network.
Tax
credits policy briefings
Interact: benefits, tax credits and moving into work (841 PDF file)
This report explores how the tax, tax credit and social security systems interact together, and the effect this has on claimants and people who are moving into work. The research included interviews with claimants, also a modelling exercise designed to find out whether work "pays" in various circumstances. The report is published by CPAG with Community Links and the Low Incomes Tax Reform Group. (December 2007)
Tax Credits Adjournment Debate – Briefing for MPs 16.05.07 (68 KB Word file)
This briefing, written for an adjournment debate on tax credits, lays out some continuing concerns around the tax credit system with suggestions for further policy reform.
Letter on tax credit reform to Treasury Select Committee members 13.04.07 (86 KB PDF file)
This letter summarises some key issues CPAG remains concerned with in relation to tax credits and the implementation of reforms to the system.
"First Steps to Reform Tax Credits" briefing October 2005 (143 KB Word file)
In this briefing CPAG lays out six practical steps to improve the tax credit system to ensure that it works in favour of low income claimants.
Tax
credits press releases
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