Today’s government release of tax credit figures for 2017 – 2018 shows that only Hackney and Tower Hamlets pay out an higher average amount of tax credit benefits than Oldham and 3 Greater Manchester areas are in the top 7 highest payment areas Oldham, Salford & Manchester. No doubt Oldham politicians the Oldham Chronicle, Reporter, Times and the Manchester Evening News who are currently running a series of articles on Oldham poverty will ignore these figures as they did the 777% to 1000% increase in foreign born school children arriving in Oldham in 4 years. Oldham’s working age benefit bill is an annual half a billion.
working and child tax credits 2017 to 2018
Tax credit tables can be downloaded on the government website Here