UK: Fathers 'should be paid' to stay with partner and children

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'Fathers who stay with their partner to look after their children should be paid up to £2,000 a year in tax credits, Frank Field, the government's 'poverty tsar', has said.

The Labour MP, who is leading the coalition's review of poverty, wants reform of the tax credits system to end discrimination against two-parent families.Mr Field wants tax credits to include more married and cohabiting couples with children. If his proposals are accepted almost two million families could benefit.
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Under the current system, brought in by Labour, a single mother can lose more than £200 a week in benefits and tax credits if she lives with a partner. The system has led to claims that couples are worse off living together than they would be living apart. Mr Field said his "Second Parent Premium" would encourage couples to stay together.
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Mr Field, once Tony Blair's welfare reform minister, told the Sunday Express: "We should pay fathers to stay with their families, not pay them to live apart, which is what we do now. We have a tax and benefits system that discriminates against two parents, yet this is what most people aspire to.

"Under the existing system, it doesn't pay people on low incomes to stay together as a couple if they have children or for single mothers to move in with new partners.'