similar issues can arise for employmentconditional inwork benefits although these transfers are generally more effective at accentuating the income difference between working and not working since the mid s support for lowwage workers has been expanded substantially in the united states earned income tax credit and the united kingdom family credit later working families tax credit now working credit especially for families with children both fc and wftc were only available to families with children as a result in the eitc reduced official child poverty in loneparent households by percentage points to while in the reduction was less than percentage point house committee on ways and means table h cited in haskins