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Pensioners
* Pensioners to get a council tax refund of £200
* Free local bus travel for every pensioner from next year.
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Free bus travel? Well let's face it, with petrol prices sneaking up and down pensioners can only just afford to run their cars
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Employment
* There will be new rules to encourage incapacity benefit claimants into work and changes to housing benefit to help create jobs.
* From next month, there will be £2,000 return to work bonuses available to single parents
* Mr Brown pledged new centres for people to get vocational training
* He announced £65m to be spent in the coming year on employer training pilots
* Mr Brown said new plans to target young people at risk of causing crime would be unveiled.
Help for parents
* Child tax credit to rise by 13%, in line with earnings, over next three years
* Child benefit to rise to a maximum of £63 for the first child and £111 for two children
* Help promised for early learning in every area for all children who need it
* Refund VAT incurred by local councils on children's centres
* New building programme for primary schools to be established, at cost of £9.4bn up to 2010.
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With this and the cider and fag tax situation he's really turning in the Chav Chancellor