Hanafin confirms child-benefit changes on way
10/11/2009 - 07:40:32The Social and Family Affairs Minister has given the clearest indication yet that child benefit payments will be cut in next month's Budget.
In a TV interview last night, Mary Hanafin declared: "There will be savings out of the child benefit budget."
She indicated three different bands of child-benefit payments may be applied.
It is unclear whether the Government intends cutting the payments, removing them from some recipients or means-testing them.
Minister Hanafin also said she could not guarantee that pension payments would escape cuts if it meant placing the burden on families who found themselves unemployed.
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