It found they were being encouraged off unemployment benefit, so they can claim more money from working tax credits.
Responding for the government, Exchequer Secretary David Gauke maintained that changes to child benefits and working tax credits were "entirely fair".
She added that money from a clamp-down on stamp-duty avoidance could be used to cancel the "damaging cut" to working tax credits.
The next debate - opened by the Labour MP for Stalybridge and Hyde, Jonathan Reynolds - focused on changes to working tax credits.
It would also would include carer's allowance and industrial injuries disablement benefit - although it would not include one-off benefits such as social fund loans and non-cash benefits such as free school meals or working tax credits.
The government says that, with public sector pay rises capped at 1%, a similar limit should apply to working-age benefits such as jobseeker's allowance, employment and support allowance and income support as well as elements of working tax credits and child tax credit.
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That is pushing up the welfare bill and to balance the books the government is having to raid working families tax credits.
Such low pay means that government must step in with substantial support such as housing subsidies, health care and refundable tax credits to working families.
The agreement passed by an overwhelming bipartisan majority in the Senate last night permanently extends the middle-class tax cuts and also extends credits for working families.
Labour MP Margaret Curran, the shadow Scottish secretary, said the country was trapped between "a UK government that cuts tax credits for working families and a Scottish government that's prepared to launch another talking shop instead of a real plan to get people back to work now".
Indeed, they sometimes find themselves working together, for example when they pushed to make child-care tax credits available to the working poor.
Today, MyFDB is a site that tracks the credits of everyone working in the fashion industry.
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Democrat-supported programs including tax credits for the working poor, AIDS research, college funding and aid to cities.
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You may be sure that several readers paid attention to the Brown-Blair spat for every one who is spellbound at the chancellor's plans for working-family tax-credits.
The EITC program annually helps nearly 20 million low-income, working families by giving them tax credits.
Most of the working poor, armed with tax credits, would go to private insurers, but the truly poor could tap government-sponsored risk pools.
Again, I ask Congress to support our plan for tax credits and subsidies for working families, improved safety and quality, and expanded after-school programs.
From the end of April, the current system of working-age benefits and Tax Credits will be gradually replaced by a new benefit called universal credit.
They are entitled to some basic benefits, such as Housing Benefit, Council Tax Benefit and Tax Credits, whilst they are working provided they are registered.
Of the development's 718 units, 529 would be for very-low-income tenants, and the rest would be divided between working-class people subsidized by tax credits and market-rate rentals.
Shadow work and pensions secretary Liam Byrne said cuts to tax credits had pushed millions of working families into poverty and now meant thousands of part-time workers were "better off on benefits".
Earlier this month, the Archbishop of Canterbury backed an open letter, signed by 43 of his bishops, criticising plans to limit rises in working-age benefits and some tax credits to 1% for three years.
At 4.30pm the Work and Pensions Committee quizzes the final witnesses in its inquiry on Universal Credit, the new social security benefit which replaces Jobseeker's Allowance, Income Support, Child Tax Credits, Housing Benefit and other working-age benefits with one single payment.
Tax credits - including child tax credit and working tax credit - will be uprated by 1% for three years from April 2013, apart from the basic and 30-hour elements where the uprating will not apply until 2014.
Many communities and individual homeowners are working on National Register applications in response to the new credits.
Credits in education and health care vouchers will help working families shop for services that they need.
The government's export credit agency, the Export Credits Guarantee Department (ECGD), will launch an Export Working Capital Scheme, a Bond Support Scheme, and will support banks offering foreign exchange hedging contracts to SMEs by sharing credit risk.
We are working for international agreement to extend this to cover other countries which provide export credits for poor countries as well.
Still, we could scrap the refundable credits and replace them with a direct cash payment to low-income working families.
And his cuts to tax credits will dwarf any gain from the rise in personal allowance for millions of working families.
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