The government also foreshadowed some of its welfare-to-work reforms such as the working family tax credit and more support for childcare.
Accounting fiddles, such as replacing Family Credit (spending) with the Working Families Tax Credit (not spending) have helped too.
If you're an individual, you choose whichever plan is best for you and your family and we will provide tax credit to ensure that you can pay for it.
Mr Bush wants to encourage family formation by doubling the child tax credit and removing the marriage penalty or even introducing a marriage bonus.
If one parent works and the other does not, and the family does not qualify for tax credits or universal credit, they will not be able to claim.
For example, family credit, a benefit for low-income working parents, is being replaced by the working-families tax credit, a tax relief.
But ending Family Credit would mean that people with earnings too small to pay tax would lose out.
Single-family housing starts hit their highest level since the first-time homebuyer tax credit sparked residential real estate demand back in April 2010, helping housing starts hit an annualized 750, 000 in August.
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However, if he or she increases the hours above that level, the family income falls off as the combination of childcare costs and withdrawn support through the tax credit system bites into earnings.
The tax relief package honors marriage and family by reducing the unfair marriage penalty and doubling the credit for children.
The Treasury spokeswoman said steps to boost family budgets included doubling free childcare places for two-year-olds and increasing Child Tax Credit.
When a credit is refundable, a family can get back even more than it paid in tax.
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And together with the child tax credit, it ensures that a working parent will be able to support their family.
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