Research by The Children’s Society and Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) has found that nursery nurses are set to lose £1,788 a year under the current proposals.
Teaching assistants and care workers would also be hard hit by the changes (see table).
After two motions were passed by peers last week, Chancellor George Osborne has said that he intends to press ahead with changes to tax credits but is now committed to ‘lessening’ the impact on families.
The new proposals will be revealed in the Autumn Statement at the end of November.
Meanwhile, during Prime Minister’s Questions, David Cameron refused to answer a question asked six times from Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn about whether families would be worse off under the revised tax credit plans.
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