There are also many niche scholarships offered to minorities, women, children of single parents--you name it.
Gingerbread interviewed 34 single parents before and after they were moved to Jobseeker's Allowance in 2008.
In Britain, for example, single parents can remain on welfare until their youngest child is 16.
The most popular cuts are for, you guessed it, the unemployed and never-married single parents.
They must wait longer than single parents in comparison countries for early childhood education to begin.
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Single parents with children aged between 5 and 11 will also be forced to attend work-focused interviews.
Childbirth outside marriage has soared, increasing pressures on women who are more likely to be single parents.
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The Tories were convinced that the benefit system offered perverse incentives to people to become single parents.
Single parents can file as heads of household, giving them wider tax brackets and lowering their basic taxes.
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Of note, a higher percentage of respondents reported to be single parents but acknowledged co-parenting with someone else.
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Work and Pensions Secretary Yvette Cooper agreed it was "essential" that single parents got the support they needed.
They lack the paid-time-off-from-work entitlements that in comparison countries make it easier for single parents to balance caregiving and jobholding.
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Children of single parents are much more likely to experience childhood poverty, become teenage parents, and drop out of school.
"One quarter of families are headed by a single parents, nine out of 10 of whom are mothers, " she said.
Macmillan provides assistance for cancer sufferers and their families, Gingerbread helps single parents, while Shelter advises on housing issues.
The charity said it found many Jobcentres were failing to help single parents find suitable work or offer the right training.
To this must be added the effects of the rising number of single parents, among whom employment rates are especially low.
But the term family was now being used for many different types of association, with single parents created by death or divorce.
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Local authorities will give children who arrive on their own, or are cared for by single parents, some sort of housing and financial support.
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He calculates a range of poverty rates by making different assumptions about the needs of married versus single parents and the relative cost of children.
Single parents who keep spare rooms so they can have access rights to their children at weekends could fall foul of the under-occupancy rule he said.
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But the new survey found that single parents who reported feeling more in control of their lives tended to be those whose financial circumstances had improved.
When the agency was created in 1993, single parents were a big political issue: there suddenly seemed to be lots of them, and many did not have jobs.
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Such a credit could also eliminate the onerous marriage penalties faced by low-income single parents whose EITCs can shrink or even disappear when they tie the knot.
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Single parents are also far more likely to be employed in low-wage jobs and, even though they have above average employment rates, also have above average poverty rates.
IFS. One is simply that many non-savers, such as single parents and young couples with children, have low incomes and high outgoings, and therefore are in no position to save.
So whereas Tony Blair comfortably survived early left-wing revolts, over a miserly increase to the basic state pension and cuts to single parents' benefit, the 10p guerrillas rapidly extracted their concessions.
He also promised to make it easier for single parents to ease the shift from welfare to work, by aiming to ensure they are better off in employment than on benefit.
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