By Nick Tarver
PLANS to cut child benefits for people who earn more than £44,000 a year could hit some of the most vulnerable families the hardest.
That is the view of child welfare experts in the borough after Chancellor George Osborne announced that from 2013 child benefits will be denied to families which have at least one parent earning more than £44,000 a year.
But critics have pointed out that a couple who both earn just under the threshold individually but have a combined salary of almost £88,000, would keep their benefits,