ON April 6 2003 Working Families? Tax Credits and Child Tax Credits will come into being and in October 2003 the much lauded Pension Credit will start.
Last week I attended a road show with the Inland Revenue to hear the principles of the Working Families? Tax Credit and the Child Tax Credit.
One of the case studies illustrates how a two-parent family working a total of 16 hours each a week, with combined earnings of £15,600 a year and with two children, will qualify for total tax credits of £5,365.
In October any pensioner household with more than an income of £200per week (£10,000 a year) will not receive any help in the way of Pension Credit.
The fact that the pensioner may have paid into the National Insurance Fund and paid a full range of taxes all his life will be of no consequence.
On November 11 we are organising a rally and lobby of Parliament in London to increase the pension for a single person to £100 a week, to end means testing and to restore the link with average earnings.
Write to me and tell me that you want to join the rally, do it now and we will be able to organise the coaches required to take those in the West Country to make their voices heard.
A G Venison
Chairman
DCPC & DPAF
6 St Mary?s Close
Axminster
Devon