{"id":5530,"date":"2016-02-23T07:01:21","date_gmt":"2016-02-23T00:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/plans-to-freeze-benefits-for-four-years-will-hit-7-million-children\/"},"modified":"2016-02-23T18:31:29","modified_gmt":"2016-02-23T11:31:29","slug":"plans-to-freeze-benefits-for-four-years-will-hit-7-million-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/plans-to-freeze-benefits-for-four-years-will-hit-7-million-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Plans to freeze benefits for four years &#039;will hit 7 million children&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#013;<br \/>\nGovernment freeze on tax credits and jobseekers\u2019 allowance could cost families 12% of their benefits, says reportMore than 7 million children living in low-income families will be affected by a four-year freeze to their benefits that risks pushing many more into poverty, according to new research.A report by the Children\u2019s Society, published on Tuesday, says families could lose up to 12% from the real value of their benefits over the next four years as a result of government plans to freeze child tax credits, working tax credits and jobseekers\u2019 allowance from April. Continue reading&#8230;&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : theguardian.com&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2016\/feb\/23\/plans-to-freeze-benefits-for-four-years-will-hit-7-million-children\" target=\"_blank\">Plans to freeze benefits for four years &#8216;will hit 7 million children&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; Government freeze on tax credits and jobseekers\u2019 allowance could cost families 12% of their benefits,&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-1rc","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":116155,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/thousands-of-renters-could-be-evicted-in-june-will-the-government-protect-them-david-renton\/","url_meta":{"origin":5530,"position":0},"title":"Thousands of renters could be evicted in June. 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