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WHAT ARE THE CHANGES TO TAX CREDITS<br />
AND HOW WILL THEY AFFECT YOU?<br />
The Chancellor recently announced his<br />
summer budget and it included big<br />
changes to taxes and benefits which will be<br />
introduced over the next 4 years.<br />
HOW WILL THIS<br />
AFFECT ME?<br />
If you are one of the 164,000<br />
families across Northern<br />
Ireland who claims Tax Credits<br />
you will be impacted by the<br />
planned changes. For many<br />
families the amount they<br />
receive will be reduced.<br />
For detailed information on<br />
the changes, the Employers<br />
for Childcare website has<br />
given examples of how each<br />
of the announced changes<br />
will impact on families. You<br />
can read the article here<br />
employersforchildcare.org/<br />
news/article/what-are-thechanges-to-tax-credits-andhow-will-they-affect-you.<br />
If you have a smartphone you<br />
can use a QR reader to take<br />
you to the article too. Simply<br />
scan the QR code.<br />
Welcome to the<br />
Clanmil Community<br />
A<br />
warm welcome to everyone<br />
who recently moved into a<br />
Clanmil home including our<br />
brand new homes at Glenann Court in<br />
Glengormley, The Monarch Building in<br />
Dunmurry, at Bayview Park in Lurgan<br />
and at the final phase of Ballyvester<br />
Grove in Bangor.<br />
We wish you many happy years in your<br />
Clanmil home!<br />
Get in touch if there’s anything more<br />
we can do to help you settle into your<br />
new home and new community.<br />
YOUR MAGAZINE, YOUR WAY<br />
We recently brought a few tenants from our family schemes together<br />
to talk about the Clanmil Chronicle and to think about how we could<br />
make it more relevant and interesting for all of our readers.<br />
We wanted to know what<br />
our readers like about<br />
the magazine and what<br />
they don’t enjoy so much.<br />
We were also keen to get<br />
their views on some ideas<br />
we had for improving the<br />
Neighbourhoods Chronicle.<br />
We got lots of really useful<br />
feedback and we’ve started<br />
trying out some of the<br />
ideas that were discussed<br />
in this edition. Hopefully<br />
you’ll enjoy your new and<br />
improved Chronicle.<br />
We’re still on the look out<br />
for ways to improve the<br />
magazine, so if you would like<br />
to share your views please<br />
get in touch by emailing<br />
christine.ashfield@clanmil.<br />
org.uk or by calling Christine<br />
on 028 9087 6000.<br />
Here’s just a few of the things<br />
that our tenants said:<br />
• Competitions and<br />
giveaways are really<br />
appealing to readers<br />
• Articles need to be<br />
short – people want info<br />
quickly<br />
• The magazine should be<br />
posted in clear plastic<br />
packaging instead of a<br />
white envelope so that<br />
it’s easy to spot when<br />
it comes through the<br />
letterbox<br />
• A section on upcoming<br />
events in the areas<br />
around your schemes<br />
would be useful<br />
• More community based<br />
articles needed<br />
• The knowing me,<br />
knowing you… section is<br />
interesting to read<br />
• More tenant stories<br />
would be good<br />
• Advice on things like<br />
recycling and rubbish<br />
disposal would be useful<br />
• More humour needed<br />
Some people said that the<br />
Chronicle<br />
never<br />
carries<br />
news about the<br />
scheme where they live, so<br />
the magazine didn’t really<br />
appeal to them or their<br />
neighbours. We’re putting out<br />
a call for news from around<br />
your schemes that we can<br />
feature in future editions.<br />
If you have a story about an<br />
event, initiative or anything<br />
at all that’s happened in your<br />
area that you think readers<br />
might find interesting, just<br />
give Christine a call and let<br />
her know the details.<br />
Clanmil Housing Group | 3
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