{"id":2115,"date":"2016-04-18T21:44:25","date_gmt":"2016-04-19T02:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/?p=2115"},"modified":"2016-04-18T21:44:25","modified_gmt":"2016-04-19T02:44:25","slug":"federal-government-introduces-enhanced-child-benefit-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/2016\/04\/18\/federal-government-introduces-enhanced-child-benefit-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal government introduces enhanced child benefit plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/federal-government-introduces-enhanced-child-benefit-plan\/childcarestampede\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2116\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-2116 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/childcarestampede-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"childcarestampede\" width=\"433\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/childcarestampede-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/childcarestampede-272x182.jpg 272w, https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/childcarestampede.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 433px) 100vw, 433px\" \/><\/a>OTTAWA \u2014 The federal government has introduced\u00a0its promised\u00a0enhancement to\u00a0Ottawa&#8217;s\u00a0child benefit program\u00a0\u2014a move\u00a0it says\u00a0will\u00a0bring tax relief for more families and help boost economic growth.<\/p>\n<p>Finance Minister Bill Morneau tabled a motion today to implement\u00a0the move, a key election vow for the Liberals.<\/p>\n<p>The measure\u00a0will consolidate, increase and re-target several family benefits \u2014\u00a0including\u00a0the replacement of\u00a0both the Canada child tax benefit and the universal child care benefit.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0updated\u00a0plan will cost the public treasury about $10 billion\u00a0more over the next two years\u00a0than the combined total of the former Conservative government&#8217;s child benefits.<br \/>\nThe Liberals have argued their overhauled child benefit will\u00a0generate much-needed economic growth\u00a0\u2014 and eventually help them\u00a0end a\u00a0projected string\u00a0of\u00a0five-straight federal deficits.<\/p>\n<p>Morneau&#8217;s\u00a0motion\u00a0also\u00a0included\u00a0a new tax credit for teachers who buy classroom supplies, a deduction to help encourage skilled labour into northern and remote communities and a move to restore a tax credit for labour-sponsored investment funds.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>OTTAWA \u2014 The federal government has introduced\u00a0its promised\u00a0enhancement to\u00a0Ottawa&#8217;s\u00a0child benefit program\u00a0\u2014a move\u00a0it says\u00a0will\u00a0bring tax relief for more families and help boost economic growth. Finance Minister <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/2016\/04\/18\/federal-government-introduces-enhanced-child-benefit-plan\/\" title=\"Federal government introduces enhanced child benefit plan\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2116,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,39],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2115"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2115"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2118,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2115\/revisions\/2118"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}