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				Re: Child Benefit Scrapped For Higher Rate Tax Payers From 2013
			 
			 
			
		
		
		
			
			Agreed - but the anomaly is a positive one for the families involved. 
 
As an aside, loved Brendan Barber's comment (TUC General Secretary)  
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				While the poorest will be hardest hit by austerity, today's announcement on child benefit shows no one is immune from the government's unwarranted rush to cut.
			
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  no one is immune - except the 6.6 million families who are still going to receive child benefit.....
		  
		
		
		
		
		
		
			
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