Single parents. Making the best of benefits.
Health visitors are well-placed to ensure that mothers on low incomes get all their benefits entitlements. In the first of a two-part series, Lee Ogilvy-Webb of the Child Poverty Action Group looks at the particular problems single parents face and offers tips on how they can maximise their income, focusing this month on mortgages, child support, and earning money while on benefit.
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