New tax year means threshold for benefit charge linked to higher earnings rises to £60,000Several hundred thousand families are to be better off, some by as much as £3,000, during the 2024-25 tax year after the government finally admitted that a child benefit measure brought in 11 years ago had not worked fairly.A change to child benefit is just one of a raft of changes coming in on 6 April, the start of the new tax year, including a cut in national insurance for employees to 8% from 10%.The...
OppShop to hold Earth Day event to benefit homeless families.
Top House Democrats unveiled plans to invest $500 million in the emergency assistance family shelter system in the next fiscal year, hundreds of millions of dollars less than the Healey administration's projection of costs.
After months of hearings and negotiations, the Biden administration announced its latest plans Monday for student debt relief, proposing changes that would save about 30 million borrowers billions of dollars in total. The plans aren't as sweeping as the across-the-board loan forgiveness of up to $20,000 per borrower that Biden ordered in 2022, a measure the Supreme Court threw out last year. But they go further than what the administration proposed in the wake of the justices' ruling, offering...
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Couple had been married for 21 years before separating at the end of last year. Solicitors at law firm Vardags mistakenly filed a final divorce application online. But judge said the order was valid and the couple are legitimately divorced
RIYADH: As many as 32,343 Saudi families benefitted from Sakani’s housing options during the first quarter of 2024, marking an annual 15 percent increase. In collaboration with the Real Estate Development Fund and financial institutions, the program provides a variety of housing support packages to encourage first-time house buyers, including non-refundable financial assistance of SR100,000 ($26,659) or SR150,000. The number of the Kingdom’s households that purchased their first...
Shanya and Matt Kane of West Chester have welcomed a Ukranian family fleeing the war into their home. Shanya's parents fled Ukraine during World War II.
The changes are designed to prioritize people walking and shopping in the West Portal district, but some say it's a "half-baked plan" that will hurt businesses.
Gerry Turner and Theresa Nist calling it quits on their 3-month marriage won't stop the show from going on -- that show being "Celebrity Family Feud," which they recorded before their divorce. Sources familiar with the situation tell us ABC has no…
Two sisters from Nova Scotia are warning the public about an invasive form of strep after their mother and step-father died from the disease on the same day earlier this year.
The White House touted President Joe Biden’s "Investing In America Agenda" this week, as major companies warn that his administration’s strict environmental regulations are forcing them to reconsider investments in the U.S. that would otherwise help shore up domestic supply chains. Biden’s Environmental Protection Agency said it will release "in the coming weeks" its final […]