At the launch in London of the Child Tax Credit and Working Tax Credit, chancellor of the exchequer Gordon Brown said the new tax credits, which become available next April, would 'modernise the existing systems, ensuring better support for children, whether or not their parents are in work and making work pay for those without children as well'. He added that the system was changing so that 'instead of a tax credit paid through the wage packet to the main earner - normally the father - we will pay the Child Tax Credit directly in cash or through a bank account to the carer - usually the mother'.
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