Abstract
Thousands of babies born to single mothers this year will be welcomed to the world by a swingeing cut in social security benefits available to lone parents. Women who become dependent on Income Support will each be about five pounds worse off a week because the lone parent premium is being abolished. All working women who become single parents will lose the extra Child Benefit that single mothers currently receive, and if they are in low paid work, they will lose lip to £10.70 a week each through additional cuts to Family Credit, Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit. On top of this, everyone will now have to claim Child Benefit within just one month of their baby's birth, or face losing some of the benefit — whether or not they are coping with postnatal depression, a baby in Special Care, or their own recovery from a Caesarean.
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