More Help with Housing Costs for Low Income Working Families

More than 200,000 U.K. working families will gain about £1000 a year, thanks to new rules around Housing and Council Tax Benefits, making them an average of £20 a week better off. From Monday, income from Child Benefit will no longer be taken into account...

Independent Police Complaints Commission Publishes Damming Report Into Missing HMRC Data Cds

The Independent Police Complaints Commission has found that the processes for data handling were woefully inadequate at HM Revenue and Customs’ Child Benefit Office in Washington. But individual members of staff were not to blame for losing the...

U.K. Budget 2008 Details Released for Income Tax Rates And Tax Allowances

2008-09 rates and allowances for Income Tax, National Insurance Contributions, the Working and Child Tax Credits, Child Benefit/Guardian’s Allowance, stamp duty land tax, tobacco and alcohol duties, fuel duties, and vehicle excise duties are set...

UK Government Loses Personal Information of 25 Million People

British Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling announced to a shocked House of Commons today that two password-protected computer disks containing the entire Child Benefit database have been lost in transit between the offices of Her Majesty’s...