According to the Labour Party website the Labour Party have achieved the following in their time in power:
* Inflation rates have averaged less than half their rates between 1979 and 1997 in the past decade
* New mums now have 9 months paid maternity leave and maternity pay is up to £112.75 a week.
* A right to paternity leave for all dads
* Parents of young and disabled children have the new right to request flexible working.
* All parents can get help saving for their children’s future with the Child Trust Fund, with the most help going to the poorest children and children in care.
* The Working Tax Credit provides help with childcare, up to a maximum eligible amount of £300 per week. (£175 per week for one child).
* As a result of the tax credit system, 4 in 10 families – over 3 million families- now pay no net tax.
I would be interested to hear both positive and negative views on Labour’s Supporting Hard-Working Families policies in the comments below?
You are what my family always believed in and by default, I did too! Why are you trying to stop my degree to be a schoolteacher in my 4th year (out of 6 yrs then?) I have no intention of ‘gracing’ the doors of the DSS every again( after this 1st time of being a lone parent and having the degrading situation of having to claim benefis, certainly not by choice to having to ‘sign on’ – how degrading) after working in the City pre-child fpor many years, I cannot inforunately afford to work locally and pay my mortgage, bills, childcare etc..I am having to pay money on my mortgage already out of my benefits because of the interest rates cut, plus building insurance, plumbing, electricity and oher mantinence bills, so some weeks, me and my daughter can barely afford to eat on the ‘value foods’ alone from supermarkets! This is nothing short of an absolute disgrace, espcially when you were dedudcting £500 plus per month from me, tax/ NI on a £1750 pe month wage, for many many year……………you have no exceptions or discretion to people wo ARE TRULY TRYING to get back into work and STAY IN work! Shame on you – you have truly disgraced one family who was for generations (up until 2010) staunch Labour supporters!!!! SHAME ON YOU!!!
Regards
Ms L M Yule
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Lara, you & many others are now realising the con artists ALL these parties are, as long as they feather their own nests its “sod the rest of us”. They continue to fiddle their expenses, vote themselves obscene rises, whilst wasting huge sums on “aiding” corrupt overseas govts, Browns total cockup of the economy for the past years means that your childrens children will be paying these debts.
Ever increasing numbers of immigrants, legal & otherwise CONTINUE TO FLOOD IN despite lies to the contrary, and eat up yet more of OUR TAX money which should be used to help people like yourself!
Check out the party that pledges to stop this waste, dont believe the lies in the “media”, vote BNP
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1235604/Single-mother-living-2-6m-mansion–Labours-housing-benefit-crackdown.html
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