Finance Minister Tonio Fenech said today that children's allowance would not be touched in the forthcoming Budget, but the government was reviewing other social benefits, particularly benefits given to single mothers.

He reiterated that the government's focus in the Budget would be to reduce its recurrent expenditure. (See video).

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