File photo dated 08/02/12 of a child playing. Families are paying more on average for part-time childcare than they spend on their mortgage, according to a new report. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Tuesday March 4, 2014. It reveals parents are handing over more than ?7,500 a year for childcare for two children, around 4.7% more than the average mortgage bill. The report, by the Family and Childcare Trust, also suggests that some families may be spending more on childcare than they do on their weekly shopping. See PA story EDUCATION Childcare. Photo credit should read: Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire
%VIRTUAL-SkimlinksPromo%Restrictions on welfare available to immigrants from the EU to the UK will be extended to child benefits.
Workers from the EU coming to Britain must already wait three months before they can claim jobseeker's allowance under new measures pushed through at the end of last year.
Let us send you our newsletter.
Our editors will email you a roundup of their favourite stories from across AOL
