{"id":9790,"date":"2010-01-20T21:25:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-20T14:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/factsheet-child-tax-credits-and-working-tax-credits\/"},"modified":"2016-04-02T10:42:23","modified_gmt":"2016-04-02T03:42:23","slug":"factsheet-child-tax-credits-and-working-tax-credits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/factsheet-child-tax-credits-and-working-tax-credits\/","title":{"rendered":"Factsheet: Child tax credits and working tax credits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#013;<br \/>\nTax credits were designed to lift millions of families out of poverty, but the system has been plagued by errors and controversy since it was launched in 2003 by the then chancellor Gordon Brown.Problems with overpayments, errors and fraud have put many people off claiming the credits, but despite the system&#8217;s complexity you should take the time to make a claim, because tax credits could benefit you and your family by thousands of pounds a year. Continue reading&#8230;&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : theguardian.com&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/money\/2008\/sep\/11\/taxcredits.familyfinance\" target=\"_blank\">Factsheet: Child tax credits and working tax credits<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; Tax credits were designed to lift millions of families out of poverty, but the system&#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-9790","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\/p75ss1-2xU","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8302,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/tax-credits-what-are-they-and-who-benefits\/","url_meta":{"origin":9790,"position":0},"title":"Tax credits: what are they and who benefits?","date":"October 20, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"\r As Labour calls on Tory MPs to vote against George Osborne\u2019s proposals to change tax credits, we explore how they are currently set upTax credits are a mechanism to redistribute income to people on lower wages. 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