Budget 2005 Summary Leaflet | Household income

			Budget 2005 Summary Investing for our future: Fairness and opportunity for Britain's hard-working families


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Compared with last year, a single earner couple with two children, with earnings up to the median for full time workers £23,400 per year will be at least £150 a year better off in real terms.
As a result of personal tax and benefit measures introduced since 1997, by October 2005, families with children are, on average, £1,400 a year better off in real terms, while those in the poorest fifth of the population are, on average, £3,200 a year better off. A single earner family with two children, on average male earnings of £31,000, is £205 a year better off in real terms.