200,000 Children 'Lifted Out of Poverty' ; Child Benefit

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Extra cash for families announced in the Budget will lift more than 200,000 extra children out of poverty, Chancellor Gordon Brown said.

Increases in benefits and tax credits would mean help for the poorest children rising in three stages by more than a quarter, to pounds 75 a week by 2010, he told the Commons.

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200,000 Children 'Lifted Out of Poverty' ; Child Benefit

But campaigners and political opponents warned the measures would not be enough to get the Government back on track to meet its target of halving child poverty b...

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