Government in-work tax credits under scrutiny by Human Rights Review Tribunal

By Anne / 4 June 2008

The Child Poverty Action Group is taking the Government to the Human Rights Review Tribunal over the way that its In-Work Tax Credit unfairly punishes the children of parents who are not in work, leaving a gaping hole in the social safety net for the 220,000 children of non-working parents. 150,000 children are estimated to be in severe or significant hardship due to the fact that their families are denied at least $60 in tax credits weekly on the basis of parents’ work status.

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