Child Benefit means-test ‘flawed’, Evening Herald, 11th November 2009

Published: Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Proposals to means test child benefit payments in the Budget are fundamentally flawed and could force women out of work, a leading lobby group has claimed.

The National Women's Council of Ireland (NWCI) said Government has made no attempt to recognise the costs of childcare to families during the recession.

Orla O'Connor, head of policy, also insisted there was an obsessive focus on cutting child benefit as the only source of savings despite the reported loss of hundreds of millions in the deal to save Anglo Irish Bank.

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