article_snippet.sent: More than a million households lost out when the Coalition announced that families with one parent earning £50,000 would pay tax on child benefit.
article_snippet.sent: Earners over £60,000 lost out altogether.
article_snippet.sent: The controversial measure, brought in two and a half years ago as part of the Government's austerity programme, was criticised for penalising single-earner families and stay-at-home mothers.
article_snippet.sent: It meant anyone earning less than £50,000 – even a couple on £49,000 each - still received the full entitlement of £20.70 a week for the first child, and £13.70 for every subsequent child.
article_snippet.sent: the Institute for Fiscal Studies have suggested that increasing Universal Credit for some families and using Universal Credit instead of child benefit could save £4.8billion a year.
article_snippet.sent: If us wanted to put child benefit into Universal Credit us would have done child benefit when us set up Universal Credit. '