The whole reason O’Grady went on the outburst is because of the coalition government and the cuts they made in the updated budget. One thing that has severely changed is child benefit, it is being scrapped in most households, basically if a household earns more than £44,000 per year then they will not be entitled to child benefit but if a household earns less than that amount they are entitled to the benefit.
This creates an anomaly where a family with one higher-rate taxpayer earning just over the £44,000 threshold will lose the benefit, but another family that enjoys joint earnings of up to £87,752 with two earners neither of which is a higher-rate taxpayer could still receive the benefit.
Around 15% of families, that’s about 1.2 million families, will be affected.
http://www.which.co.uk/news/2010/10/child-benefit-cuts-and-what-they-mean-for-you-232241/
If you would like to see a video of George Osbourne announcing the cuts then follow this link;
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/oct/20/spending-review-2010-osborne-cuts
