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The government announces major changes to CSA
CSA makes way for leaner, meaner alternative

The beleaguered Child Support Agency (CSA) is to be scrapped and replaced by a tougher and more streamlined organisation, John Hutton announced today. The work and pensions secretary said the new body would “come down like a ton of bricks” on absent parents who refused to pay maintenance for their children. It would have the… Read more »

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Work and pensions secretary John Hutton announced sweeping pension reforms earlier this year
Government ‘must clarify’ pension pledges

The government has been urged by MPs to set in stone a date for when it intends to re-link increases in the basic state pension to earnings and not inflation. Publishing its detailed report into the government’s far-reaching white paper on pension reforms announced earlier this year, the work and pensions committee has maintained its… Read more »