The lowering of the FTB B income threshold for the primary earner is estimated to save $1.2bn over four years, while cutting youth allowance to students travelling overseas, unless it's for study or a family crisis, will save $153.1m over five years, according to the budget papers.
Family Tax Benefit Part B was designed for families with one main earner and single parents, with a slightly higher payment for those whose youngest child is under five.
On paper, the top outside earner is former prime minister Gordon Brown, who declared £492,331 from outside activities primarily from public speaking engagements around the world.
Although trivial, I believe my experience clearly illustrates how financial organisations like NatWest have exploited the hard-working, responsible earner; abused the trust that was placed in them; creamed off the handsome profits that came as a result of their irresponsible lending; and now try to make themselves out to be "responsible" at the expense of the people who have fed them.
But before they are orphaned, families' incomes degenerate as the wage earner falls sick.
No, not the report from Valencia newspaper Provincias, who got hold of a full list of the first-team salaries and published them for the world to see (Ricardo Costa was the top earner on €3.7m a year, in case you're wondering), but the Getafe fan who provoked Diego Costa into missing a penalty … by flashing his arse at him.
It is thought Delph, Villa's reigning player of the year who signed from Leeds United for £8m in 2009, becomes the club's highest earner on £55,000 a week in a deal that takes him to June 2019.
In 1918 the richest 1% of earners was rewarded with 19% of all income, receiving about 19 times more than the average earner.
Furthermore, the high income earner tax rise, which increased the marginal tax rate for earnings above $180,000 a year by 2%, made these voters look at the government in a less favourable light.
