{"id":203342,"date":"2015-11-25T18:13:52","date_gmt":"2015-11-25T18:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=203342"},"modified":"2015-11-25T18:14:09","modified_gmt":"2015-11-25T18:14:09","slug":"uk-govt-scraps-plans-reduce-support-poor-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/uk-govt-scraps-plans-reduce-support-poor-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"UK govt. scraps plans to reduce support for poor workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>British Finance Minister George Osborne has scrapped plans to reduce state support for low-income workers.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Addressing the parliament, he said improved public finances meant he could deliver his overall $18 billion welfare savings without the cuts.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, Osborne was forced to back down on a proposal to reduce the payment of so-called tax credits, which supplement the income of low-paid workers, after it was rejected by the UK\u2019s upper house of parliament.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Because I&#8217;ve been able to announce today an improvement in the public finances, the simplest thing to do is not to phase these changes in, but to avoid them altogether,&#8221; he told parliament.<\/p>\n<p>Delivering his combined autumn statement and spending review, Osborne \u00a0said higher-than-expected tax revenues and lower interest payments on government debt had opened up an extra \u00a327bn of fiscal wriggle-room, which would allow him to cancel the cuts altogether.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2015\/11\/25\/439127\/UK-govt-scraps-plans-to-reduce-support-for-poor-workers\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British Finance Minister George Osborne has scrapped plans to reduce state support for low-income workers. Addressing the parliament, he said improved public finances meant he could deliver his overall $18 billion welfare savings without the cuts. Last month, Osborne was forced to back down on a proposal to reduce the payment of so-called tax credits, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":203297,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,18,1615],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-203342","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-latest-news","9":"category-uk-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}